Fewer tourists, more money left behind: the Canary Islands’ new math
Fewer tourists, more euros. That’s the paradox laid out in black and white by ISTAC’s second-quarter 2026 data for the Canary Islands: visitors spent €4.851 billion across the archipelago between April and June, up 10.2% on the same period in 2025, with average daily spending climbing to €181 from €157.9 the year before. Tenerife and […]
The Canary Islands want Spain’s first offshore wind farm, and they want it off Gran Canaria
For centuries this sea filled sails. Now Canary Islands authorities want it to spin turbines. At the fifth Mesa de la Eólica Marina, convened by the regional government’s Ministry for Ecological Transition and Energy, island energy officials finalized the submission the archipelago will send to Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition ahead of the country’s first […]
Homes or Holiday Lets? The Canary Islands Try to Rewrite the Rules
In one building in Las Palmas, a family hangs laundry on the third-floor balcony while a wheeled suitcase rolls across the landing every three days on the fourth. That daily overlap is more or less what the new decree being drafted by the Canary Islands’ Tourism Ministry is trying to sort out. Tourism minister Jéssica […]