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National and international trends.
The tourism industry is booming globally for many years, also having a great importance in the Spanish economy, the second recipient of tourism worldwide.
This growth trend has been affected in recent months following the global crisis, but still remains one of the least affected.
Even in recent months have seen a slight growth and improvement over previous months or the same period last year.
The growth trend in the use of new technologies by tourists is increasing, a number that is shown in 2008, where he has recorded that 54% of foreign tourists who visited Spain access the Internet.
The percentage of tourist expenditure generated by tourists as the use, or not, the Internet are very similar but is slowly gaining weight the latter: in 2008 55.0% of the total tourist expenditure was made by tourists if you use Internet during your trip, up 6.6% from the previous year, compared with 45.0% of total expenditure generated by tourists who did not use the Internet (5.5% less than in 2007).
As for trip planning, 52% of spending is for those who only used the internet to see services (transport, accommodation and activities to undertake), 42.8% of those who in addition to consulting services also conducted reserve these services online but not paying them. And finally, 39.8% were made by tourists who consulted, reserve and pay for any service related to its journey to Spain (transport, accommodation and activities to do) through the network.
Another very important aspect to note is the growth in recent years of tourists who travel without contracted package.
In 2008 70% of tourists came to Spain tour package did not hired, and that 7 of every 10 tourists who come to our country do without any form of organization.
This trend is in constant growth in recent years.
All these trends make our tourist product is the ideal profile for a new tourist to travel without a tour package is contracted and regular user of technology.