Spain · Hospitality
Accommodation led Spanish residents’ domestic travel spending in Q2 2026
Spanish residents spent EUR 2.88 billion on accommodation outside packages on domestic trips in the second quarter of 2026. It accounted for 27.3% of their domestic spending. Transport led the budget for trips abroad at 30.5%.
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Domestic trips
Shared scale · 0% to 30.5%
Trips abroad
Shared scale · 0% to 30.5%
Switch destinations to compare each item’s share of total spending.
The two spending baskets differed
Restaurants and cafés represented 25.3% of domestic trip spending and 16.2% of spending abroad. Package tours accounted for 5.7% domestically and 17.1% abroad. The destination cut describes where residents took the trip, regardless of their nationality. Source 1
Package prices can contain a room and transport
INE records the package price in a separate line and reports accommodation and transport booked outside packages. The accommodation row therefore measures separately recorded outlay. Hotels are one of the places that may receive it. Source 1
Spending and trip counts grew at different rates
Domestic trip spending grew 5.5% over the year and the number of domestic trips rose 1.0%. On trips abroad, spending fell 0.5% while trips rose 2.0%. INE reports that the average time spent abroad fell 6.4%. Source 1
Use the right denominator for budgeting
The EUR 82 daily figure for trips within Spain and the EUR 159 figure for trips abroad spread spending over trip days. The interactive figure instead asks where each group’s total budget went. It keeps the spending shares on one scale. Source 1