Tourism booms amid spanish gloom

Despite an apparent downturn and fears that the housing market is on the slide, Spain ended 2007 with a huge surge in tourist arrivals, according to Government figures...

The number of tourists arriving rose 5% on the previous years in November to 3.3 million, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism said. In the first eleven months of the year, the number of tourists arriving in Spain reached 56 million - up 2.1 pct from a year earlier.