{"id":152778,"date":"2026-02-27T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/gasto-turistico-balears-2025-record-23406-millones\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:49:18","slug":"gasto-turistico-balears-2025-record-23406-millones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/gasto-turistico-balears-2025-record-23406-millones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist spending in the Balearic Islands reached a historic record in 2025, totalling \u20ac23.406 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152774 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cala-Comte-Eivissa.webp\" alt=\"tourist spending Balearic Islands 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tourist spending in the Balearic Islands in 2025<\/strong> reached a <strong>record high<\/strong> of <strong>\u20ac23.406 billion<\/strong>, representing a year-on-year increase of <strong>4.7%<\/strong>, according to the February edition of <em>El Moment Econ\u00f2mic de les Illes Balears<\/em>. This rise consolidates a <strong>model focused on higher value per visitor<\/strong>, although <strong>tourist arrivals slowed their growth rate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average spending per person<\/strong> stood at <strong>\u20ac1,228<\/strong> (+2.9%), while <strong>daily spend<\/strong> reached <strong>\u20ac198<\/strong>, up <strong>5.7%<\/strong> compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n<h2>Tourist spending in the Balearic Islands in 2025 grew faster than visitor arrivals<\/h2>\n<p>While spending hit a record, the number of tourist arrivals rose by just <strong>1.7%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Performance differed by origin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>International tourists<\/strong>: +2.6% (15.7 million)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domestic tourists<\/strong>: -2.3% (3.3 million)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By island, the <strong>domestic market<\/strong> showed notable differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Menorca<\/strong>: +4.5%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mallorca<\/strong>: -0.6%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Piti\u00fcses<\/strong>: -10.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These figures highlight the stronger contribution of international visitors to the growth in tourist spending in the Balearic Islands in 2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Balearic GDP records four consecutive years of growth above Spain<\/h3>\n<p>According to the official revision by Spain\u2019s National Statistics Institute (INE), <strong>Balearic GDP grew by 4.2% in 2024<\/strong>, outperforming the national average growth of 3.5% and marking four consecutive years above the Spanish figure.<\/p>\n<p>The services sector once again acted as the main economic driver.<\/p>\n<h3>The services sector led growth in 2025<\/h3>\n<p>Turnover in the services sector in the Balearic Islands posted an average increase of <strong>+6.9%<\/strong>, compared with <strong>+4.8%<\/strong> nationally.<\/p>\n<p>By activity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional activities and hospitality drove annual growth.<\/li>\n<li>In December, transport stood out (+15.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Hospitality showed a more moderate increase (+1.0%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Air traffic set a new record with <strong>23.6 million passengers<\/strong> (+1.3%), while maritime traffic fell by 1.1%.<\/p>\n<h3>Housing, industry and employment reinforce the economic cycle<\/h3>\n<p>In 2025, the islands exceeded <strong>4,800 housing permits<\/strong> for the first time since 2008, with a year-on-year rise of <strong>29.1%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial output grew by <strong>4.0%<\/strong>, above the Spanish total (+1.3%), driven by durable consumer goods, capital goods and energy.<\/p>\n<p>In the labour market, employment affiliation rose by <strong>2.5% in January 2026<\/strong>, with similar gains in the general regime (+2.5%) and among the self-employed (+2.3%).<\/p>\n<h3>Inflation moderates at the start of 2026<\/h3>\n<p>2026 began with a slowdown in inflation in the Balearic Islands. The headline rate stood at <strong>2.4%<\/strong>, very close to the Spanish average (2.3%), while core inflation reached 2.7%, moving above the headline rate after three quarters below it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist spending in the Balearic Islands in 2025 reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/gasto-turistico-balears-2025-record-23406-millones\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":152775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-tourism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Record tourist spending in the Balearics in 2025 with \u20ac23.4 billion - Mallorca Global Mag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Balearic Islands close the year with a 4.7% year-on-year increase, despite a slowdown in arrivals and a decline in domestic tourism.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/gasto-turistico-balears-2025-record-23406-millones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Record tourist spending in the Balearics in 2025 with \u20ac23.4 billion - 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