The National Institute of Statistics (INE) published this Thursday, January 31, the annual survey on 'Occupancy in Extra-Hotel Tourist Accommodation', which certifies that Puerto del Carmen was the area of Spain with the best levels of accommodation occupancy in the extra-hotel sector during 2018.
According to the INE, the coast of Tías registered on average, throughout 2018, an occupancy of 84.99 per volume of accommodation places in the apartment sector, while this ratio rose to 85.65% per accommodation on weekends. After Tías, the municipality of Mogán, on the island of Gran Canaria, is in second position in this ranking, and Adeje, in Tenerife, in third place of tourist areas with the best occupancy percentages in apartments.
Thus, the City Council highlights that Puerto del Carmen has managed to "for the third consecutive year" lead throughout the Spanish territory as the tourist area with the best tourist occupancy ratios. It was in 2016, the first year of the renovation of its plant, when it entered this ranking, to maintain it in 2017 and now also in 2018.
The INE also certifies that Puerto del Carmen registered the highest average stay data in Lanzarote of the tourists accommodated throughout 2018, with an average of 8.37 days, the third best data in Spain after the municipalities of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Mogán, in the south of Gran Canaria. Likewise, the INE survey also highlights that in Puerto del Carmen, throughout 2018, nearly four million overnight stays were registered in extra-hotel establishments.
Modernization of the accommodation plant
The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Tourism, Amado Jesús Vizcaíno, has highlighted that "this new INE survey, released this Thursday, underlines the importance of Puerto del Carmen for the strength as a holiday destination." "The improvement and renovation that has been launched in recent times reflects that we continue to have a tourist area with a great future for Spanish and European tourism," he said.
In this sense, the Consistory recalls that Puerto del Carmen has witnessed in recent times an important urban transformation with the two modernization plans launched by the City Council for the rehabilitation of its accommodation plant and the renovation of its public spaces. "According to data from the Government of the Canary Islands, the municipality of Tías has been, in the Canary archipelago as a whole, the one that has led the greatest transformation of its accommodation plant, both hotel and extra-hotel", it is stated from the Consistory.
