January's tourism disaster: each hotel received an average of 12 visitors per day
Only 47,217 foreign tourists stayed in the Canaries compared to almost 600,000 in 2020…
Holiday bookings soar as British tourists hope for travel restart in May
Easyjet have seen a 600% increase in bookings overnight... many are opting for July onwards to be safe...
Tenerife and Gran Canaria among most sought after destinations for Easter
The search for holidays over Easter has grown by 43%...
Loro Parque: ‘We are losing an average of two and a half million euros per month’
Half of Loro Parques staff are still working behind the scenes to care for the animals, even the park has been shut for 11 months…
Currency transfers and the law post-Brexit
There is one particular change that it’s essential to be aware of when moving money abroad post-Brexit…
Jet2 raises € 483M with share issue to overcome the drop in travel
The British travel industry wants the UK government to urgently establish how it will lift restrictions...
FTI Group: travelling to the Canary Islands at Easter ‘is possible’
"Waiting for everyone to receive the vaccine is not a solution; we have to learn to live with the virus"...
Property sales fell by 22% in 2020 in the Canary Islands
The decrease was 17.7% in the whole of Spain during 2020, the largest decrease since 2011...
Mercadona donates 780 tons of necessities to food banks and charities
This is 63% more than the year before and equivalent to 13,000 trolleys full...
Almost half self employed have closed their business but continue to be registered
Approximately 10,000 autonomos are receiving aid for cessation of activity, and continue to pay their Social Security although they won't open their business again...
German tourists will return to the Canary Islands in the summer
Safe corridors will be necessary in tourist areas with a low incidence rates of Covid, as well as the use of tests, says the Commissioner for Tourism, Thomas Bareiss...
Latest airline updates as UK casts doubts on summer holidays
Airlines are confident people will be able to travel but UK politicians have cast doubts on a summer holidays...
Canarian Airways… the new Canarian airline has take off!
The birth of the new airline has been announced and the project is being guided by One Airways, an aeronautical company built with 100% Canarian capital…
A public registry of 'Real Estate Agents’ is being created in the Canary Islands
There are criteria professionals must meet including sufficient financial solvency through the necessary guarantees and liability insurance...
Hoteliers threaten legal action against city councils for the collection of taxes
Ashotel has told the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities the serious situation that closed hotel companies are going through since last March, but that they continue to have to pay fees and taxes for services that are not being used....
Compensation awarded to Tenerife tourists sold investments in tax havens
The first court sentence of this kind in January has ordered the return of investor’s money plus costs and interest...
Aena charges 100% rent to airport shops and restaurants after no reduction agreement
Aena has kept their word after offering two different proposals to help with payments, which were rejected as being "unaffordable" by tenants… Rental agreements are worth 1.2 billion euros a year in airports…
Hoteliers believe that Easter ‘may be a good time to get back to work’
CEHAT say: "No wave has been caused by tourism and there have been no outbreaks attributable to any hotel facility"
Almost 10,000 people lost their jobs in January in the Canary Islands
There are currently 279,230 people unemployed in the Islands and 12,349 less contributors to Social Security when autonomos are taken into account...
Government approves another 9 month moratorium for mortgages and loans
According to the latest data from the Bank of Spain, Spanish financial institutions granted 1.3 million moratoriums at the end of December to those affected by the coronavirus crisis, with a value of 54 billion euros…
