Editing Economy of Spain (section)

===Tourism===
{{See also|Tourism in Spain}}
[[File:Playa de Levante, Benidorm, España, 2014-07-02, DD 05.JPG|thumb|right|Beach swarmed by tourists, Benidorm]]
During the last four decades Spain's foreign tourist industry has grown into the second-biggest in the world. A 2015 survey by the [[World Economic Forum]] proclaimed the country's tourism industry as the world's most competitive.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/05/07/inenglish/1430989028_591703.html |title=Spain has the world's most competitive tourism industry|newspaper=El País |date=7 May 2015 |access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref> The 2017 survey repeated this finding.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://reports.weforum.org/travel-and-tourism-competitiveness-report-2017/country-profiles/?doing_wp_cron=1542752608.4256589412689208984375#economy=ESP|title=Country profiles|work=Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017|access-date=2018-11-20|language=en-US}}</ref>

By 2018 the country was the second most visited country in the world, overtaking the US and not far behind France.<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of countries with the highest international tourist numbers|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/most-visited-countries-world-tourism-organization/|access-date=2020-07-14|website=World Economic Forum|date=8 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> With 83.7 million visitors, the country broke in 2019 its own tourism record for the tenth year in a row.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-01-20|title=Spain's 2019 tourist arrivals hit new record high, minister upbeat on trend|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-economy-tourism-idUSKBN1ZJ17Q|access-date=2020-07-14}}</ref>

The size of the business has gone from approximately €40 billion in 2006<ref name=":0" /> to about €77 billion in 2016.<ref name="2016TourismRecord">{{cite news|date=13 January 2017|title=75 million and counting: Spain shattered its own tourism record in 2016|newspaper=El País|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/01/12/inenglish/1484227097_393882.html|access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref> In 2015 the total value of foreign and domestic tourism came to nearly 5% of the country's GDP and provided employment for about 2 million people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.investinspain.org/icex/cda/controller/interes/0,5464,5322992_6261530_6278938_0,00.html |title=>> Exceptional lifestyle |publisher=Invest in Spain |access-date=13 March 2013 |archive-date=18 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118012611/http://www.investinspain.org/icex/cda/controller/interes/0,5464,5322992_6261530_6278938_0,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The headquarters of the [[World Tourism Organization]] are located in [[Madrid]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.unwto.org/about/whereweare |title=Where we are &#124; World Tourism Organization UNWTO |access-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315121915/http://www2.unwto.org/about/whereweare |archive-date=15 March 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>