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Most of the Canary Islands have very low infection rates, but travel warnings mean empty beds. Hoteliers are now attracting people with dumped prices.
Blue skies, bathing time, mild temperatures, but also the pleasant climate does not help Canarian hoteliers to fill their hostels to some extent this winter. A “black year” for island tourism is ending, denounces the head of the regional government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Victor Torres. Meanwhile, a German travel advisory for the “Islands of Eternal Spring” is in effect again, because infections are increasing there. In addition, the new variant of the virus in Great Britain ensures that tourist flight connections with the British Isles are blocked.
“We’ve been on a kind of roller coaster for months,” says Jorge Marichal, president of the regional hotel association. In autumn, the volcanic islands of the Atlantic were one of the few European destinations that were considered comparatively safe for the crown and for which many countries had not issued a travel advisory. But now, just before the turn of the year, when hundreds of thousands of vacationers often fly to the Canary Islands, new bad news has arrived from Germany and Britain. The two countries are the main tourist markets of the islands.
