Advance bookings for international flights for May total 11.3 million, 13% more than a year ago

For the Minister for Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, "the seat statistics forecast for May gives us a very important clue as to how the international tourism market is going to behave right at the official start of the high season, with a substantial increase in air traffic, which for this month shows even better values than in 2023".

Comparing the forecasts for the number of seats in May 2024 with the data recorded for the same period in 2023, the good performance of the main outbound markets to Spain continues: the United Kingdom (+8%), Germany (+13.3%) and Italy (+13.5%).

Also noteworthy are the sharp rises in Poland, up 53.4%, Czechia, up 42.7%, and the US, up more than 20.9%.

In addition, markets such as Sweden, Colombia and Switzerland also show significant increases of more than 10% for May.

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