'Prices have risen outrageously': Spaniards avoid holiday hotspots overrun by foreign tourists

Spaniards are increasingly taking their holidays in lesser-known destinations, where prices are lower and mass tourism is yet to hit

Spain's top 25 Mediterranean and Atlantic coast destinations saw local tourism drop by 800,000 people last year, whereas foreign visitors rose 1.94 million.

International holidaymakers are keeping Spaniards off their own sun-kissed beaches due to ever-rising hotel and rental prices during an unprecedented tourism boom.

Spain's top 25 Mediterranean and Atlantic coast destinations saw local tourism drop by 800,000 people last year, whereas foreign visitors rose 1.94 million, according to previously unreported official data reviewed by analysis firm inAtlas.