Spain set an international visitor record in 2024, welcoming 94 million tourists into the country during a year when residents flooded to the streets to protest overtourism’s negative impact on their daily lives, including a burgeoning housing crisis that’s taken governmental action to help alleviate.

Spain expects even more tourists to flock to the country in 2025 after an estimated record 94 million foreigners visited last year, 10% more than in 2023, Tourism Minister Jordi Hereu said on Wednesday,