Jose Manuel Bermudez (Tenerife tourism council) has requested (in writing) that Thomas Cook back down on their decision to impose a 5% discount on hotel bills due to the recent Iceland volcanic ash problems encountered claiming that this will only worsen the current economic climate in the Canary Islands and the fact that the hotels [...]
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Tenerife requests Thomas Cook back down on 5% discount demands
Posted by Canaries News on September 14th, 2010
Tourist spend down 7.9% in April
Posted by Canaries News on May 27th, 2010
The amount of money tourists spent during the month of April 2010 was down 7.9% when compared to figures for the same motnh the previous year. This decrease is due to the volcanic ash that affected the airspace over europe during the month of April. In the first 4 months, tourism was showing a daily [...]
Volcanic ash causes 20% drop in tourism in Canaries during April
Posted by Canaries News on May 21st, 2010
The Islandic Volcanic ash problem during April 2010 has caused a drop in tourism in the Canarias by just over 20%, according to recent figures released. National figures were also down by 13.3%. The most affected country of origin affected was the UK with a drop of 27.7% of tourists visiting Spain. Previous to this, [...]
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Tags: Canaries, canary islands, spain, tourism, volcanic ash 
No Comments »Canary Islands airports back to normal
Posted by Canaries News on May 12th, 2010
The Canarian airports are back to normal after 385 flight cancellations yesterday due to the Icelandic volcanic ash. The airport of La Palma was the worst affected which was unable to allow any of its 56 programmed flights to arrive/depart. Tenerife North suffered 96 cancelled flights, tenerife South had 57, Gran Canaria 79 and Fuerteventura [...]
Posted in Canaries, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote, Tenerife Tags: Canaries, flights, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife, volcanic ash No Comments »Tenerife airports reopen
Posted by Canaries News on May 11th, 2010
The two airports in Tenerife, Reina Sofia (Tenerife South) and Los Rodeos (Tenerife North) have reopened after being closed at 5AM this morning due to the Icelandic volcanic ash forced AENA to close both the airports in Tenerife along with La Gomera and La Palma. All airports except La Palma have now reopened. La Palma [...]
