Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- Gran Canaria hopes that 2023 will be consolidated as one of the three best tourist years in its history, thanks to the recovery of the arrival of travelers from countries such as Germany, Sweden and Norway, its main clients , which up to April already show growth of 26%, 40% and 62.6%.
In a statement, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria recalls that the arrival of German and Nordic tourists last year fell due to fears that their countries would suffer an energy crisis due to the war in Ukraine and the reduction in gas supplies from Russia. .
However, he adds, “gas and oil reserves did not drop below 90% last winter”, which has encouraged tourists from those countries, which are among the main source markets, to travel to Gran Canaria again. for this island.
Added to these positive figures is that of Finnish passengers, which add up to an increase of 38%.
“These are markets that are essential for Gran Canaria and that are immersed in a recovery process that still has a lot of room to go,” explains the Gran Canaria Tourism Minister, Carlos Álamo.
Álamo maintains that, like Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura has experienced a good share of the tourist market in March and, “seeing the advance of the results of Holy Week and that April 2022 was already better than that of 2019, they will be even better.” ”.
Meanwhile, the markets that have grown as part of the Gran Canaria Tourism diversification project remain stable, except for France, which continues to rise, with 42.4% more, and Italy, which continues to grow, with 42% more passengers.
On the other hand, the arrival of the Dutch decreased by 1.2% and the influx of Belgians fell by (0.2%).
passenger figures
The statistical advance of Aena and the latest report from Promotur, of the Government of the Canary Islands, with data from ISTAC, show the arrival at the Gran Canaria airport of 295,431 foreign customers in the month of April, with which the accumulated number since January 1 amounts to 1,367,364 travelers on international routes.
To this data we must add the presence of 970,696 national passengers, adding a total of 2,338,060 people in the first four months of this year, almost 25% more than last year.
“Everything points and we are verifying month by month”, Carlos Álamo has pointed out, that “this 2023 will be by numbers and especially by the billing indicator among the three best years for the tourism sector of Gran Canaria”. EFE
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