Category: Travel and Tourism

With Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, currently doing his best to discourage any positive sentiment towards his country, it’s worth looking at how demand for Turkey’s tourism markets have changed over the years. In this figure, we can see that tourism demand, having grown strongly throughout the recession, had been in gentle decline since 2011 but… Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Tourism Market

2014 was a good year overall for tourism in the Canary Islands, no doubt helped by problems in Egypt and Greece. There are 11 major resort areas in the “Big Four” islands and the number of guest nights (number of tourists multiplied by the average number of nights each tourist stays) is shown below. Gran… Continue reading Winners and Losers in the Canarian Tourism Market

In brief, it’s all about money! For the latest data available (year to June 2014), tourists in the Canary Islands were estimated to have spent €4.6 billion during their stay, a 22% increase on the value four years earlier. As we can see, however, the growth in Lanzarote’s tourism revenue far outweighs that of the… Continue reading Success in tourism – why “bums on seats” is not enough to make a judgement

Inter-island fares in the Canaries are subject to two sorts of subsidy: the discount for residents/large families and a subsidy paid for by the Government under what is called a Public Service Obligation (PSO).

The generally accepted measure of wealth creation is Gross Domestic Product (GDP), so this post will use various sources of information to calculate the proportion of GDP for each island that tourism creates.

I have recently had tussles with people on Facebook on this subject. One person suggested that: Passengers do really care about flying with their own Canarian airline.  I could say most certainly that passengers from the Canary Islands do want to fly with their own Canarian flagged company, especially when flights go as far as… Continue reading Appealing to Canarian Patriotism – Can it Succeed?

This second part examines a means of stimulating inter-island tourism. Below we can see the load factors on the inter-island routes for 2013, also showing the maximum and minimum load factors recorded by month.

The five main islands accessible from the UK and mainland Europe (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma) offer very different experiences for those tourists who opt to do more than sit on the beach every day.

This post examines the Spanish tourist market in the Canary Islands. As we would expect, the Spanish (Peninsula) market is of considerable importance to the Canary Islands although, as Figure 1 shows, the Peninsula is a more important to the tourism of some islands more than others.

This post examines how British travel habits have changed over the last few years, in particular from 2006 to 2013 (September 2012 to August 2013 inclusive). The focus of the post is main holidays by air, assuming that only a small proportion of travellers will travel by car, train to the Mediterranean.