The Tenerife delegation displaced to fitur hThe first day of professional meetings has closed with good prospects for this year, especially, from the summer and, specifically, in the British market. This has been confirmed after meeting held with Jet2 Holidays, one of the UK’s leading tour operators.
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, points out that the British market has begun to recover since last July and has once again become the first foreign market that sends tourists to the Island, with a share of 17.3%.
Martín, who has participated throughout the day in the work meetings, highlights that “the perception is one of optimism, because despite the current situation derived from the pandemic, there is a desire to travel, there are new agreements, there is more connectivity and, with these meetings we have the feeling that, taking into account how high vaccination is in Spain and Tenerife, the summer months will probably be different and we will finally begin to notice a change.
The CEO of Tenerife Tourism, David Pérez, stressed the relevance of the meetings held yesterday, “in which we have been able to verify the interest in bringing tourists to Tenerife, both among new international operators such as United Airlines, and among national operators.” The prospects for the summer are positive for this market, indicates Pérez, “with two and a half million plane seats available right now.”
As for the meeting with the United Airlines company, which will link Tenerife and New York from June, he highlights that “the parent company in the United States is very strongly committed to this project.” An institutional meeting has been held with Turespaña and “the good relations and collaboration with Tenerife in different promotional projects throughout the world have become clear”, Pérez values.
President Martín affirms that among the objectives of the participation in Fitur, he highlights that of «consolidating a job that we have been doing for more than a year and a half so as not to be left alone with our main client, which is the British; we have to take care of it, but we have to open agreements with other markets in which there are interesting opportunities».
