Canary Islands add another 183,000 beds

One phrase you are highly unlikely to hear at Christmas in the Canary Islands is that there is "No Room At The Inn", because, as this report at EL DÍA says, since the "moratorium" on building new tourist accommodation came into force in the Canary Islands in 2001, a further 46,253 tourist accommodation places have been created.

To that, can be added the further 137,000 beds in the process of being so, making a total of 183,253 new beds in the archipelago that have eluded the (inappropriately named) moratorium, most of which will be available in the coming months and, which brings the total number of places in the Canary Islands to 543,138.

Whist the biggest growth (by 33%) has been on the archipelago's second-largest island, Fuerteventura, 7,209 of the new places already created are in Tenerife, taking the total number of beds currently available on the island to 128,520.

Las 137.000 camas en trámites de apertura elevan a 183.000 las que eluden la moratoria

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