Spanish Tourism to Weather Barcelona as Terror Becomes the Norm
- Airlines say travelers are learning to live with security risk
- City attack likely to have limited impact for beach resorts
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Spain’s booming tourism industry should withstand the Barcelona attacks as people become more accustomed to near-constant security threats and the killings in the popular city fail to dent the far larger beach-resort market.
While Barcelona is a vibrant attraction for short breaks, most of the country’s visitors head to its famous costas and islands such as Majorca and Lanzarote. Tour operators would be more concerned about a terrorist incident like that in Tunisia two years ago in which a gunmen roamed hotels shooting dead 38 people and effectively closing down the nation’s holiday sector.