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Spain retakes third spot after record year

Good season for Spain. | PERE BOTA

Madrid.—Spain announced yesterday  it has retaken the number three spot in world tourism in 2013, overtaking China by luring a record 60.6 million international visitors.
Foreign tourist arrivals surged by 5.6 percent in the year, the government said, boosting the eurozone’s fourth largest economy after a long, job-wrecking recession.
“The new figures for 2013 allow our country to retake the number three position in this indicator after having overtaken China,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said.

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