Saturday, August 26, 2006
Record Breaking Month for Tourism in Tenerife
Provisional tourism statistics for July 2006, from the Tenerife Island Corporation, indicate that 484,695 tourists were accommodated on the island during the said month - a record since the same month of 1978 and 0.38% more than in July of 2005.
Cabildo Vice President and Councillor for Tourism, José Manuel Bermúdez, says that "this figure ratifies the good times that tourism on the island is currently encountering." There had also been a 20.3% increase in visitors in June in respect to the previous year.
The principal markets, the United Kingdom and Germany, both suffered decreases, by 6.8 and 9.9%, respectively, in July, though, cumulatively, are up on the previous year. In July 157,309 British and 43,643 German tourists visited Tenerife. The biggest increases in July were among Irish (61.5%), Italian (33.2%), Swiss (23.4%) Belgian (15.1%) and Dutch (9.3%) tourists.
The average length of stay was 8.27 days - an increase of a bit over half a day. Hotel occupation was at 69.9%, 6.9% more than in 2005. There were less British tourists staying in apartments in the south of the island, while the north saw an increase in absolute numbers - 9.7% more than the previous year.
In the seven months of the year to date, Tenerife has accommodated 3,075,852 tourists in total. In the six months to June, the Canary Islands as a whole had received 5.5 million tourists, 3.4% more than in the same period of 2005.
Tenerife recupera su protagonismo turístico con 484.695 alojados en julio
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2 Comments:
Pamela wrote (on
August 29, 2006)
My goodness, entertainment in the south has gone down since my mate and her Brummie Gloria Estefan show left and I stopped compering karaoke. :)
Actually, I know the standard has dropped: a lot of the artists we knew went to other places, because the bars here couldn't afford them.
Well, there are two possible answers. One could be that the clientelle suddenly got taste and no longer seek those "Brits abroad" style home comforts. Unlikely?
The other is the same problem bars have been moaning about for a decade or more to my personal knowledge. The punters are potless. They scraped it together for the package holiday, but they have no spending money, so they don't go out to the bars and stay in the hotel for whatever is put on free.
Nice of you to drop by and glad you are still alive, BTW.
Well I thought it was pretty busy (couldn't park anywhere, all month). And where I work has been unusually busy, for what should be a quiet time. But perhaps you can explain why all the bars seem to be moaning that they haven't any custom? I mean after all, they are all advertising the same "English Breakfasts" and real English beers! Surely that's enough to tempt any tourist? They all have the same high quality entertainment (one man and his stylophone), and British beers are all on tap! It seems incredible that any tourist worth their salt would not spend all their time in such establishments... after all in a week or two away from home, a chap gets homesick and needs all these familiar things... don't they?