The amount of money that tourists spent on their holidays in Spain has dropped by 3.5% when compared to figures for the same month last year. The amount spent per day has also dropped by 1.5% to €99. The total amount spent nationally was €2.534 million with the highest percentage coming from the British market, [...]
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Ryanair offers Madrid-Fuerteventura flights for €5
Posted by Canaries News on March 27th, 2010
Ryanair celebrates launching its new Madrid-Fuerteventura line by offering 1.000.000 flights at only €5 each (one way, tax included). The offer is limited to people buying tickets from this Saturday until modnight on Monday for flights between 12th April until 31st of May 2010. The new route starts tomorrow (28th March 2010) and will fly [...]
Tourist Spending Tumbles On Lanzarote
Posted by Canaries News on March 26th, 2010
The weakness of sterling against the euro and the impact of the economic crisis have combined to create a marked decline in the amount of money that tourists are spending on their holidays in Lanzarote. According to new research recently released by ISTAC, the Canarian Institute of Statistics. The latest ISTAC statistics reveal that visitors [...]
Power cut affects 95% of Lanzarote
Posted by Canaries News on March 24th, 2010
A power cut, this time on Lanzarote, left nearly the whole of the island (95%) without electricity for approximately 1 and a half hours today when a fault (currently unknown) in Punta Grande caused all the municipalities sub stations to shut down, except Yaiza, which is powered from an underwater cable from Fuerteventura via Playa [...]
Unelco-Endesa to pay €6 million fine over power cut
Posted by Canaries News on March 19th, 2010
Unelco-Endesa are to pay a fine of €6.000.000 for leaving 468.000 clients (the whole of the island of Tenerife) without electricity on the 4th March 2010. The company claims a protection system failed during ‘heavy atmospheric conditions’ on the 4th March 2010 and left the whole island of Tenerife without electricity for over 7 hours.
