The next winter season has 9.3 million parking spaces, 30.2% more than before the pandemic
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 11. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Turismo de Canarias has been distinguished, and by voting among the airlines themselves, as the best destination in Europe in attracting air routes, an award given last Wednesday night within the international connectivity meeting ‘Routes Europe 2023’ that is held these days in Poland and for which they competed with public entities promoting destinations such as Italy, Jordan or Malta.
The archipelago has 731 air connections operated by 53 airlines from 147 airports, making it one of the best-connected tourist destinations in the world.
The Canary Islands Tourism delegation, headed by the managing director of the public company Promotur Turismo de Islas Canarias, José Juan Lorenzo, attended this annual event where the world’s leading airlines, airports and destinations present their flight schedule .
These conferences allow the Canary Islands destination to strengthen its presence among airlines to be taken into account for the sale of future air capacity, reports the Ministry of Tourism in a note.
Thus, an intense agenda of 25 meetings with airlines and airports are making it possible to verify that the airlines are satisfied with the development of sales to the Canary Islands, not only for the current summer season, already underway, but for next winter, they stress. from the Government.
Specifically, the Canary Islands Tourism team has observed that the islands are in a position to maintain high connectivity and even increase routes for next winter.
In fact, as of today, the islands have their next high season, which runs from November 2023 to March 2024, with an offer of 9,385,631 places, which is 434,033 more than in the last winter season (+4, 8%) and 2.1 million more places if compared to the pre-covid winter (+30.2%).
IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY WITH NORTH AMERICA
Especially noteworthy from this meeting for the islands is that “work continues to expand connectivity with North America, an objective that is getting closer,” according to the managing director of Promotur.
It is also striking that the prospects for this coming winter improve with the connectivity of the Nordic countries, markets that to date have not recovered the activity they had before the pandemic.
The air operators thus conveyed to the Canary Islands delegation that, at a general level, demand continues to behave better than expected, with a strong and rapid recovery in Spain and especially in the Canary Islands, “where some expected the aforementioned ‘champagne effect’, a rapid rise once the covid crisis has been overcome and a stabilization or even drop, given the high inflation and the geopolitical situation,” he commented.
However, and in the words of the companies, “The Canary Islands seem to have come out on another level, in a better position, in a superior position, this translates into maintaining high connectivity and even, in the coming weeks we will see announcements of new routes with the Canary Islands for next winter,” said José Juan Lorenzo.
