The number of tourists visiting Lanzarote rose by 30% last month, according to the latest figures just released by the Spanish airport authority AENA. As a total of 122,222 visitors arrived on flights to Lanzarote from across Europe. British visitors accounted for well over 60% of this figure, as 77,281 arrivals from the UK touched [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Tourist Arrivals Soar By 30% On Lanzarote in September
Posted by Canaries News on October 25th, 2010
Canaries Folklore bands visit Tenerife South
Posted by Canaries News on October 25th, 2010
The best Canary Islands folk bands will meet in Arona, Tenerife, from October 28th 2010 until April 14th 2011. Canarias Folk Fest is visiting Los Cristianos, Las Galletas and Las Americas for the delight of locals and tourists. For more information, visit www.arona.travel
Posted in Canaries, Tenerife 
Tags: band, concert, folklore, las americas, las galletas, los cristianos, Tenerife 
No Comments »Chaos and delays in Canaries airports
Posted by Canaries News on October 22nd, 2010
The airports in the Canary Islands suffered a day of chaos yesterday 21st October 2010 when a third of the air traffic controllers refused to work due to lack of training on a new system that has been installed. Out of the 745 flights due to take off or land across all the airports, 40% [...]
Air Berlin to drop Tenerife North next summer
Posted by Canaries News on October 22nd, 2010
Air Berlin yesterday announced that they will be dropping Tenerife North from their destinations next summer and said ‘it is not the time for experiments’. They went on to say that 2009 was a ‘difficult’ year and that so far this year, Tenerife North had seen a drop of over 10.000 passangers. They will, however, [...]
At least 9 illegal immigrants arrive on Lanzarote
Posted by Canaries News on October 21st, 2010
At least 9 illegal immigrants, although the figure could be higher and include minors, arrived on the coast of Famara, Teguise, on Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday 20th October 2010, after a resident called the police after spotting what turned out to be two of the illegal immigrants that had arrived via a [...]
