The Arrecife City Council has launched a new plan to "reactivate the commercial center" of the capital of Lanzarote. The mayor, Yonathan de León, and the councilor, Eli Merino, have launched this initiative coinciding with 'World Tourism Day', and the start of the cruise season in the Canary Islands, where the city becomes the port that "grows the most in the entire Canary Archipelago."
The capital's mayor has detailed that, since last Saturday, after the presentation of the 'Arrecife Tourism 2023' awards, the City Council "is boosting, with performances by folk groups and a reinforcement of tourist information services, the social and commercial activity of the capital's center, which aims to ensure that tourists who enjoy their vacations on the island frequent the capital for their shopping and leisure time."
The City Council, through the Department of Commerce and Tourism, is offering from now on, and every Saturday, "folkloric performances that become an attraction for residents and tourists who visit the city, to relaunch this neuralgic area of the capital of Lanzarote where a high offer of hotel establishments and the traditional open commercial area are concentrated." "The musical entertainment will take place in the surroundings of the commercial streets of the city center, and the square of the church of San Ginés, which hosts the Traditional Market every Saturday."
The Department of Tourism will also offer, within this reactivation and dynamization plan, "folkloric performances on the days that cruises arrive, at the foot of the pier, to turn the capital into an attractive destination for shipping companies." These musical performances, both at the Cruise Pier and in Los Mármoles, will start on October 4, with the stopover of two large ocean liners with more than 11,000 people, including passengers and crew.
Cruise forecasts
The capital of Lanzarote becomes, according to data from the Port Authority of Las Palmas, the cruise destination in the Canary Archipelago that "grows the most in the arrival of ocean liners." Until the end of the year, and from this week, they have scheduled their stopovers "a total of 111 cruises". Between September 2023 and April 2024 (peak months of the cruise season in the Canary Islands) a total of 224 cruises have requested berthing at the docks of Arrecife, according to the AP forecasts.
This Tuesday, September 26, the eve of World Tourism Day, the cruise ship 'Anthem of the Seas', one of the twenty largest ships in the world, has arrived in the city. It has arrived on a trip from the port of Lisbon with American tourists, on a circuit through the waters of the North Atlantic and the Canary Islands.
