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Archive for April, 2012

British demand for apartments to be reduced by 30%

apartment complex

The supply of apartments to British tourists is becoming less profitable for the major tour operators in the British tourism market. The low profit margins have forced operators to consider reducing non-hotel accommodation by around 30% for next winters season. The major British tour operators plan to terminate their contracts with many of the non-hotel [...]

Unemployment hits 32.28% in the Canary Islands

Unemployment in Spain and the Canary Islands

The number of unemployed people has increased both in Spain and the Canary Islands. In the Canaries, unemployment has now reached nearly 33%. In the Canary Islands there are 20,400 more people unemployed in the firs quarter of 2012, an increase of 5.98%, bringing the total amount of people without work to 362,300 according to [...]

13 people arrested in Tenerife over Iran-UK smuggling network

UK Border Agency

National Police, Guardia Civil and the UK Border Agency have broken up a human smuggling network for citizens of Iranian origin, whose destination was the United Kingdom, and have so far arrested 22 people, 13 of them based in Tenerife. Immigrants moved to Europe either through the border between Turkey and Greece in truck cargo [...]

Tourism decreases in Tenerife during March 2012

Tourism Canary Islands

The number of tourists staying on the island of Tenerife decreased 3.6% during March 2012 when compared to the same month last year. The total number of visitors staying in Tenerife during March (2012) was 438,028, (-3.1% among foreign tourists and -5.8% for national tourists). However, according to the council, there were increases in British [...]

Two new earthquakes on El Hierro are felt by the islands population

el hierro

The National Geographic Institute has today registered in the south of the island of El Hierro two isolated earthquakes registering 3.0 and 2.2 degrees on the Richter scale, which have been ‘slightly felt’ by the islands population. PEVOLCA have reported that the two earthquakes recorded in south of El Hierro may be associated with the [...]

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