Tourism Observatory of the Canary Islands.

Abstract

Preliminary Report | Application to INSTO-UNTWO Tourism Observatory of the Canary IslandsIn addition to the 15.6 million tourist arrivals by plane in the Canary Islands in 2018, the ports of the islands received 2.4 million cruise passengers during that year.Regarding tourist arrivals, 89% were foreign tourists, while 1.7 million, the remaining 11%, have their residence in other regions of Spain.Regarding foreign tourists, the United Kingdom shows the highest figures, slightly over 5 million tourists in 2018, representing approxi-mately a third of the tourists in the Canary Islands.Germans, with around 3 million, represent 20% of tourist arrivals, and in the third place in terms of arrivals are the tourists from the rest of Spain.Taken together, the Nordic countries represent 11% of tourist arrivals, while other relevant countries ranging between 2 and 4% of the arrivals are the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Italy and Belgium.