The president of the Tourist Federation of Lanzarote (FTL), Susana Pérez, has shown her concern about the economic impact of the conflict between the United States and Israel against Iran on expenses, supplies, and the tourism forecasts she is managing for the coming months during an interview with Radio Lanzarote.
“After a good winter, with 90% occupancy and 86% during Holy Week, with good rates,” Susana Pérez explains that they are currently receiving a fifth of the reservations that were arriving on this day last year: “if 50 were coming in, ten are arriving today,” she exemplifies.
Pérez explains that this week he had the opportunity to analyze the data during a working meeting of issuing markets with representatives of the Society for the Promotion of Lanzarote Abroad (SPEL). “We saw that April may not reach 80% and in the forecast for May we do not reach 70%”.
And the brake no longer comes from Germany, a “conservative” market, which reduces its trips abroad when there is uncertainty and low economic growth, which has impacted the progressive reduction of German tourism to Lanzarote, but from United Kingdom.
“It is the British market, our main issuing market, it is paralyzed. Bookings from the United Kingdom are paralyzed. A market that had never given up its holidays due to uncertainty in recent years,” explains Pérez.
“We are not saying that there cannot be a turnaround in a month or two, it depends on how it evolves, but right now the context is one of absolute containment in the United Kingdom's reserves. If this does not change, we would find ourselves in a new period of important crisis, he warns.
