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Trip Advisor places 3 Canary Island beaches in ‘European Top 10′ award

Fuerteventura - Corralejo - Beach

Trip Advisor has awarded three Canary Islands beaches in it’s ‘Travellers Choice 2012′ Top 10 European beaches award. Gran Canaria’s ‘Playa del Ingles’ took 8th place, ‘Corralejo’ in Fuerteventura was in 9th place and ‘Puerto del Carmen’ in Lanzarote took 10th place in this category. Nationally, Spain had strong representation in the list with 5 [...]

The Canaries start 2012 with increase in tourism

tourism increase in canary islands

The Canary Islands have started 2012 with continued with growth in the tourism sector. Just over 916,000 foreign tourists travelled to the Islands. So far this year there has been an increase of 5.6% (48,000 more visitors). Tenerife has seen the highest rise in tourism. The Deputy Minister for tourism in the Canaries, Ricardo Fernandez [...]

Large increase in cruise passengers for Lanzarote

Puerto de Arrecife

The port of Arrecife in Lanzarote has started the year with a large increase in the number of cruise passengers that have arrived on the island during January 2012 with an increase of 99% compared to same period last year. The Arrecife port facilities achieved the highest percentage increase of all three under the control [...]

British woman missing in Lanzarote

Margaret Holt Lanzarote

The search for a British woman reported as missing on Saturday when she apparently went out hiking in Lanzarote on Thursday is now to be extended to the sea with the addition of a maritime rescue boat as there has been no luck so far on land. The boat will track the island’s north coast, in waters of the municipality of Teguise and Haria, where for a third day the search by [...]

Update on Lanzarote beach closures

Lanzarote beach

The plague of jellyfish that has been affecting the coast of Lanzarote for the last few days is today forcing the closure of the ‘El Reducto’ beach in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote. Bathing on this beach has been prohibited and a reed flag has been raised to warn swimmers of this. In contrast, the [...]

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