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Canary Islands Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria have enjoyed for many years lively tourist numbers, boosted by a number of factors which placed the islands in a nearly unique sweet spot as far a the ideal destination is concerned .

The islands benefit tremendously from their environment, which bestows on them mild and sunny weather for most of the year. to break the pull of the warm winter, the visitor to the islands during the off-season months, raised, especially since there are limited possibilities for mild winter weather in Europe. Next, the island is its proximity to the large tourist market of travelers from Europe. The islands of most European countries within four or five hours, a comfortable flight for most people to be reached. Finally, the advent of low cost flight operators, destinations, the work to ensure a regular, year-round schedules can get upright, has increased the number of visitors to the islands.

The islands themselves have identified all these factors and tailor-made options for your holiday outfit. But things can either come on down with a bump or be rescued by the island authorities, which in turn fantastic bargain for anyone planning to could travel there.

Tourist visitor numbers to the islands grew steadily until its peak in 2001, but since then has experienced a slow decline and last year came just over 9 million visitors to the islands. 2009 may be a different story completely shifted to the global financial crisis and recession, currency conversion to the main markets of Germany and the UK.

There are several reports which could drop to as low as seven percent or as high as 25 percent and the local government, which benefited massively from the tourism industry, to see big drops in tax revenue.

If you look closely at the official figures we can see that the islands could fall as a whole, only six percent in tourist numbers for January but almost 17 percent for the month of February with over 150,000 tripled fewer visitors compared to the same month in 2008.

This seems to have shaken the authorities to act, and there are rather high-level discussions on a number of schemes that the aim of the decline are reparations.

The options open to bring to the Department of Tourism amount of either incentive travel more travelers to the island or to promote the aggressive visitors directly through the promotion of the islands.

Such a scheme is to increase the number of bike paths on the islands of lobbying. This may be a direct result of seeing the impact of such initiatives in Majorca, which directs a substantial amount of their off-season of travel industry in search of warmer winter cyclists training sites.

A major problem relates to numbers, but beyond the control of the authorities is the pound sterling to euro exchange rate and the fact that over a third of the island visitors come from the United Kingdom. The holiday is making to anywhere in the euro zone about twenty percent more expensive than last year, which means many Britons choose to stay at home this year. For a region where tourism accounts for about half of gross domestic product (GDP) this is a significant issue. There are bound to concerns over unemployment, and not only in the hotel industry. Connected sectors such as bus and taxi, restaurants and airport staff will all be affected.

Some figures show that the actions of the authorities may have effect. In January of this year, although the visitors were Lanzarote from 12 percent, the number arriving by low-cost of twenty percent. This can only be a result of a major scheduled operators are some of its flights to be, but it could also be a real increase in the number of available cheap flights to Lanzarote.

In a recent interview the head of tourism on Tenerife seemed to deny it was a real problem, which was established by the island well to weather the current economic storm. He hoped that the island would be similar to 2008, visitor numbers to win, but he confessed that to renovate the island and to innovate for the future needs. If these visitors is the goal will be reached, the island already has some catching up to do.