Canaries experience tourism drop during July 2012

The Canary Islands received 821,969 foreign tourists in July (2012) which is 11,000 less than the same month last year (2011), representing a decrease of 1.4%, according to a survey recently released by the Ministry of Industry. This drop in foreign tourist arrivals in the Canaries contrasts with an increase of 4.4% last month of foreign tourist arrivals to Spain (Nationally), which saw a record high of 7,700,000 tourists. The UK market experienced the biggest drop during the period and Germany also saw negative figures. Since January (2012), the Canary Islands have been visited by 5,805,175 foreign tourists, up 0.1% compared to the same period in 2011, a year that ended beating the record of foreign tourist arrivals to the Canary Islands, with more than 12 million people visiting the islands.