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Jan 10, 2024 · The largest Canary Island, Tenerife, is by far the most visited destination in this Spanish autonomous community. In 2022, Tenerife received over 5.8 million international and domestic tourists.
- Why Does Lanzarote Want Less Brits?
- How Has The Travel Industry Responded to The Comments?
- How Is The Island Planning to Prevent overtourism?
- Which Other Spanish Destinations Are Limiting overtourism?
More than 50 per cent of visitors to the Island currently come from the United Kingdom, totally 1.3 million visitors in 2019. This is compared to 309,000 from Germany and 115,000 from France. British tourists have a reputation for rowdy behaviour. Overcrowding is an existential threat to the island, said Lanzarote’s President María Dolores Corujo. ...
Steve Heapy, the Chief Executive of one of the UK's biggest budget airlines, Jet2, spoke to Travel Weekly about President María Dolores Corujo's comments. "We heard about what the minister had said at ITB in Berlin last week, so on Monday, I took the initiative and wrote to her, copying in all the hoteliers in Lanzarote. “As the largest UK tour ope...
The plan has a clear intention - reducing the number of British holidaymakers. However, authorities haven’t hammered out details on how this will be achieved. There is no detail of an official ‘limit’ yet, but the council website indicates that the tourism authorities will soon start targeting marketing toward other European countries. "In Madrid, ...
Lanzarote is the latest of several Spanish islands to express dissatisfaction with high numbers of tourists. Last month, the government of the Balearic Islands - an archipelago which includes Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza- announced plans to cap tourist numbers. In 2022, more than 16 million holidaymakers visited the islands. Officials have indicate...
Apr 21, 2023 · The region may consist of seven islands that help form it, but there are four destinations that are clearly favoured; Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura. Further data shows that Tenerife is the most popular island in terms of inbound tourists, with over 2.8 million having been experienced in 2021.
First of all nobody ever said “Lanzarote is fed up of British tourists.”. That line was completely made up. Two completely separate comments were made Cabildo President Dolores Corujo in a much wider speech talking about the future of Lanzarote tourism. In one, she said that the island needs to reduce its reliance on the British market, and ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Lanzarote in figures 2023: 3.1 million tourists and almost 3,000 new residents. Published on April 16, 2024. Lanzarote News from Lanzarote. The Data Center of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, directed by Minister Ascensión Toledo, has just published the report “Lanzarote in figures 2023”, a bilingual publication, aimed at the general public ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Lanzarote: We need less British tourists. Lanzarote, with a population of just 151,000 people, received 2.5 million tourists in eleven months until November 2022, which is 17 times the number of people that live there which has led the cabildo to declare that the island is a "tourist-saturated area" that needs to focus on “higher quality ...
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Jul 28, 2023 · Between January and June, 6.5 million tourists stayed in traditional tourist accommodations in the archipelago, 14% more than in the same period last year, according to the ISTAC Tourist Accommodation Surveys. The notable growth of foreign residents (16.5%) stands out, followed by visitors from mainland Spain (6.7%) and, finally, Canarian residents (1.6%).
