Almost one in three tourists who visited Lanzarote in the first quarter of the year earn more than 75,000 euros net per year, according to data from the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC).
This is 205,915 people, which represents a percentage of 31.8% of the total of tourists who visited the island between January and March and amounted to 647,332 travelers.
The percentage of travelers who exceed 75,000 euros in Lanzarote is the highest in the Canary Islands, followed by Gran Canaria, where it reaches 31.3% of the total tourists.
Next is Tenerife, where travelers in this socioeconomic sector represent a percentage of 29.4%, while in Fuerteventura it represents 28.9% and in La Palma it stands at 26.5%. ISTAC has not collected data for El Hierro and La Gomera.
Most are British, but the percentage is higher among Germans
ISTAC data only discriminate four groups by nationality: British, German, Spanish and other countries.
The British who visited Lanzarote between January and March and who exceed 75,000 euros per year were 95,607, which represents 46% of the total, but represents 31.2% of all British who arrived in that period (305,949).
The Germans in this socioeconomic spectrum were 26,398, which represents 12.8%, but are 39.2% among all Germans who arrived between January and March (67,203).
In the section of "other countries", ISTAC includes 77,805 travelers arriving between January and March who earn more than 75,000 euros, they are 37.7% of the total in that economic group and 35.3% among all those who arrived from "other countries" (219,829).
The national travelers who visited Lanzarote and earn more than 75,000 euros were 6,105 people, which represents 2.9% of the total and 11.2% of all national tourism in the first quarter (54,351).
Travelers earning less than 25,000 euros are 10%
The travelers who visited Lanzarote in the first quarter who have annual incomes between 50,000 and 74,499 euros were 154,035, which represents 23.7%.
The next section identified by ISTAC, those who earn between 25,000 and 49,990 euros, represented 34.1%, while tourists who earn less than 25,000 euros per year were 65,999, which represents 10.1% of the total.
