Whilst we wait for confirmation of the final tourism figures for Lanzarote this year, the statistics for November are now available.
There’s no doubt that 2013 has been a great year for tourism on the island, we’ve already received more than 135,000 tourists in the first eleven months of the year from January to November, than we did in the whole of 2012.
Apart from January and February this year, every other month has recorded an increase in visitors, over the same period in 2012. Over the year we have accumulated a growth of 7.25% compared to the previous year’s figures.
We’ve already touched on the arrival figures for November in our autumn tourism update, which were up 21.2% compared to November 2012. The occupancy figures have since been released by Asolan (Asociación Insular de Empresarios de Hoteles y Apartamentos de Lanzarote) which confirmed that November has been the best month of the year to date at 88.76% occupancy. This is an increase of 11.63% compared to the occupancy figures for November 2012, and beats August occupancy figures of 88.36% which had previously been the best month in 2013. The months of March, July, September and October all recorded occupancy of over 80% this year.
The holiday resort with highest occupancy in November was Puerto del Carmen with 90.28% where 3* hotels were the most popular choice of accommodation, as well as 4* hotels and apartments. Playa Blanca was 2nd with 88.62%, and very close behind 88.48% for Costa Teguise.
Other areas recorded 93.60% occupancy in the capital Arrecife, 81.46% in Tinajo, 77.18% in Puerto Calero and 44% in rural hotels.