According to Rita Martin of the Canarian Governments department of tourism and despite the recent crisis, golf tourism is increasing in the Canary Islands. During 2009 there was an increase of 3.5% in this type of tourism with over 15.000 tourists from mainland Spain and over 361.000 from other areas, concluding that the islands are [...]
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Golf tourism on the rise in the Canaries
Posted by Canaries News on July 5th, 2010
Posted in Canaries, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Tenerife 
Tags: Fuerteventura, golf, Gran Canaria, holidays, Lanzarote, Tenerife, tourism 
1 Comment »Tenerife Ladies Open in Tenerife starts 1st July 2010
Posted by Canaries News on June 29th, 2010
Tenerife Ladies Open is one of the 13 European tournaments that this year are going to take place in Spain. For the second time in its history it is going to be hold in the golf course of Buenavista, in the Northeast of the Island of Tenerife. A spectacular course by the sea where you [...]
Canaries ‘too expensive’ for golf tourists
Posted by Canaries News on May 7th, 2010
According to Istac, 83.033 out of the 154.533 tourists that visited the islands to play golf during the first quarter of 2010, said that practising the sport on the islands is ‘expensive’ or ‘too expensive’. A further 60.928 said that they considered the price to be ‘normal’, while 7.200 went on to say that it [...]
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