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Tourism sector loses jobs despite increase in tourists

Tourism Work Decrease

The Canary Islands have seen 3,400 jobs lost in the tourism sector in the first quarter of 2012, despite record visitor numbers. Tourism generated €3.048 million for the Canaries in the first three months of the year (2012), which is €178 million more than the same period in 2011, an increase of 6.2%. Despite this [...]

Lanzarote receives first Iberia Express flight

Iberia Express Lanzarote

The recently created airline Iberia Express, a subsidiary of Iberia, began operating yesterday (Tuesday, 1st May 2012) with Lanzarote Airport with an Airbus A-320 flight, which will have a frequency of a daily flight between the island and Madrid which will increase to two flights per day during the months of July and August. The [...]

Canary Islands airports income increased during 2011

Gran Canaria Airport

The eight Canary Islands airports saw their income grow by just over €11 million during the year 2011, from €15.690.000 in 2010 to €26.910.000 in 2011. 2011 was a record year for tourist arrivals to the Canary Islands exceeding 12 million visitors. The airlines also enjoyed the air tax bonuses offered by the government (which [...]

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 [...]

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