Gran Canaria Tourism faces Fitur 2022 with an improvement in the forecasts for the arrival of tourism from the Peninsula that until now was known a few years before. A total of 650.000 airline seats are those that airline operators have tied up for sale for the destination and, especially, the south of Gran Canaria for a key market for the island such as the peninsula. This Wednesday Gran Canaria Tourism presents the fundamental data in a meeting with professionals from the sector ahead of Fitur in Infecar with the presence of technicians such as the manager Pablo Llinares as well as the island councilor, Carlos Álamo The data on air seats must be taken carefully as they are subject to significant changes, especially longer-term data.
The estimate of the occupancy rate of tourist accommodation in January and February 2023 exceeds 65% in all cases and, in the case of five-star hotels, 71%. For apartments, 70%. The interest in Gran Canaria is highlighted when between the end of December and the beginning of 2023, searches on networks for Gran Canaria have increased by 29% and the week-on-week variation in flight reservations by market has increased in Spain last November to fly to Gran Canaria between January and April 2023 has increased by 22,35%.
In 2022 that figure was 543.000 troops and in 2023 it is 640.000, according to official data accessed by Maspalomas24H. Between January and April 2023, the forecast increase is 17%, according to the updated data held by Cirium SRS Analyzer.
Carlos Álamo, tourism advisor of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria 
