Lanzarote has become the second most popular tourist area with the highest hotel occupancy per place in Spain in the month of May, with 66.8%, only behind Barcelona, which obtained 72.41%, according to the tourism situation statistics released this Thursday by the INE.
In addition, Canary Islands has also managed to lead in terms of autonomous communities, with 62.1% occupancy and concentrating 20.6% of overnight stays made by non-residents in the country and 7.8% of residents. For its part, the south of Tenerife marked the second best data of the archipelago in relation to occupancy in tourist areas, with 65.4%, and Gran Canaria, with 1.3 million, was the one that concentrated the highest number of overnight stays.
The Tenerife municipality of Adeje, with 821,036 overnight stays, was the tourist point of the Canary Islands that achieved the highest degree of hotel occupancy, which reached 71.18% of the places offered.
Hotel prices registered in the fifth month of the year in the Canary Islands an interannual increase of 14.14%, while the average daily rate, which stood at 101.05 euros, grew 3.84% in annual rate and the average income per available room, which amounted to 72.8 euros, increased by 92.4% compared to May 2021