Clean sweep Capital tourism

out Spain was 48.6 per cent.

As for overnight stays in hotels, in March they grew by 15.2 per cent and totalled 1.6 million.

In this case, 60 per cent of the total corresponds to overnight stays by foreign travellers, whose increase was 30 per cent.

The recovery of overnight stays in Madrid is now just eight points from 2019 when historic figures for tourism were recorded in the city and in Spain as a whole.

RICHARD LEWINGTON, Chairman of the Madrid branch of Conservatives

Abroad ­ the international wing of the British Conservative Party, has been confirmed as a candidate in the upcoming municipal elections in Oñati, Guipuzkoa in the Basque Country on Sunday, May 28.

This marks a historic moment as Lewington will be the first British citizen to run for office in Spain’s autonomous Basque Country.

The 41 ­ year ­ old, originally from Southend on Sea, Essex, is a former

Chris King