section_path: Economy/Present-day economy/Tourism
section_name: Tourism
paragraph_text: Tourism
  
  Madrid is the seat of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the International Tourism Fair (FITUR).
  
  In 2018, the city received 10.21 million tourists (53.3% of them international tourists). p. 9 The biggest share of international tourists come from the United States, followed by Italy, France, United Kingdom and Germany. p. 10 As of 2018, the city has 793 hotels, 85,418 hotel places and 43,816 hotel rooms. p. 18 It also had, as of 2018, an estimated 20,217 tourist apartments. p. 20
  
  The most visited museum was the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, with 3.8 million visitors in the sum of its three seats in 2018. Conversely, the Prado Museum had 2.8 million visitors and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum 906,815 visitors. p. 32
  
  By the late 2010s, the gentrification and the spike of tourist apartments in the city centre led to an increase in rental prices, pushing residents out of the city centre. Most of the tourist apartments in Madrid (50–54%) are located in the Centro District. In the Sol neighborhood (part of the latter district), 3 out of 10 homes are dedicated to tourist apartments, and 2 out of 10 are listed in AirBnB. In April 2019 the plenary of the ayuntamiento passed a plan intending to regulate this practice, seeking to greatly limit the number of tourist apartments. The normative would enforce a requirement for independent access to those apartments on and off the street. However, after the change of government in June 2019, the new municipal administration planned to revert the regulation.