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For full story see: El Pais in English Xàbia must pay a fee to open the public slipway in the Port And French arrivals spent €2.7 billion, representing a significant increase of 12.8%. German visitors spent a collective €4.4 billion, a 0.5% increase. Tourists from the United Kingdom – who are the largest community of visitors to Spain – left the most amount of money, €5.7 billion, a 9.8% rise from last year. The good news comes on the back of record arrival figures, making 2015 a banner year for tourism in Spain. Spanish tourism set a new record in the first half of the year, when foreign tourist spending reached nearly €28.3 billion, a 7.4% rise from the same period in 2014. For full story see: The local.es Spain sees record foreign tourist spending in first half of year But an estimated 83 percent of contracts signed in the second quarter in Spain were temporary ones. The unemployment rate declined by 1.4 percentage points in the second quarter, according to the National Statistics Institute. Economists say the cash-in-hand habit is strongest in agriculture, building, domestic work, trade and tourism. Then in the crisis, this gave way to "an informal economy of survival" of technically unemployed people living hand-to-mouth from casual jobs, he said. During the boom decade before Spain's crisis broke out, companies subcontracted a lot of their work to workers whom they paid in cash in order to keep up with demand, said Princeton University sociologist Alejandro Portes. It estimates the black economy equals about a quarter of Spain's gross domestic product - or roughly a quarter of a trillion euros. The tax collectors' union Gestha says the vast black economy has for decades undermined Spain, the eurozone's fourth-biggest economy. For full story see: The local.es Black economy clouds Spain's recovery "Is it fair that we make such a ridiculously paltry amount while we put our lives at risk?" the firefighters' association said. It is the first time such a strike has taken place while wildfires sweep vast areas of Spain, the association of forest firefighters, Atbrif, said in a statement on its website. Firefighters go on strike as wildfires ravage Spainįirefighters from Spain’s forest firefighting service (BRIF) began an indefinite strike on Monday in protest against working conditions and low pay.
