It's no longer enough to have the sun warming our skin, the breeze clearing our heads, or that island-like security that makes us leave the door open. Now everything, even a sigh of satisfaction, must be sifted through an official report on the tourism business in Gran Canaria with data as of August 5, 2025, a large map of percentages that tells us whether we're happy or not, whether the product is good, or whether the climate, the one thing nature hasn't been able to fully sell, meets expectations. They've given us a new bible, and it's called Mabrian. And within its pages, Gran Canaria, with an overall index of 84,08, sits at the center of the altar, as if faith in statistics were the only path to tourism salvation.
The index tells us we're safe, that we've reached 92, and that our climate, at 90, is almost perfect. Was a report necessary to certify what history already knew? Tourists don't need a graph to know that winter sun is a miracle and that tranquility is a precious commodity. But numbers reassure us, of course; they give us a frame of reference. We see how Tenerife lags behind in almost everything, a younger brother that fails to achieve the same numerical excellence, and how Mallorca and Antalya, the other major contenders, look at us askance from their own indices, with their own percentage truths, as if paradise were a prize to be shared out each year. And Gran Canaria, with a year-on-year growth of 3%, seems content with its faith in progress, a faith that can sometimes also be an act of blindness.
But the report has a second part, the airplane part, and that's where the real battle unfolds. With air traffic growth of 10,42% for the entire year 2025, Gran Canaria has become the great promise, the market's wunderkind. While Tenerife is moving at a more modest pace, Mallorca is stagnating in the maturity of its success, barely growing, like an old oak tree that has seen everything it has to see. And Antalya, with 7,21% growth, demonstrates that there isn't just one path to paradise, but multiple routes, all filled with airplanes and people coming to find what they don't have at home.
The report, then, is not a story about destinations, but about the flights that lead to those destinations. The numbers promise us a future of prosperity and satisfaction, yes, but what they're really telling us is that stillness, true and profound stillness, will be increasingly difficult to find amid the noise of progress and the incessant roar of airplane engines that deliver happiness in batches.
