Tourism in Spain was developed during the last years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, when the country became a popular place for summer holidays, especially for tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Scandinavia. Since then Spain has been the second most visited country of the world after France.
Summer Resorts and Beaches
This modality of Tourism was the first to be developed in Spain, and nowadays, is the one that more income grants to the Spanish economy. The mild climate during the whole year and the extensive sandy beaches of the Mediterranean and South Atlantic, as well as of its two archipelagoes (the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands respectively) have been attracting tourists from the cold territories of North Europe for decades. Summer resorts are popular between the Spaniards too.
Winter Tourism
Spain, as the second most mountainous country of Europe and is full of high mountains and good ski resorts, with famous ski slopes all over Spain, including the Pyrenees, the Cordillera Central, The Sistema Ibérico and Sierra Nevada.
