Recently released tourism figures show that February saw the highest number of holidaymakers in the Canary Islands for 15 years.
More than 930,000 tourists visited the islands last month, a huge increase of 22.4% in comparison to the same month last year, according to the regional Department of Tourism. These figures make February 2011 the best month for tourism throughout the Canary Islands since 1996.
Tenerife continues to be the most popular of the islands with 332,694 visitors this year, , followed by Gran Canaria with 289,573 visitors, an increase of 19% and 18% respectively, in comparison to that of 2010. The largest individual increase was seen in Fuerteventura, where visitor numbers for February were 47% higher than last year.
These figures were announced at German travel trade show, ITB Berlin by the president of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, who declared that the forthcoming summer season was going to be very successful.
Tenerife Tourism Corporate launched a Facebook page in January 2011, securing over 1,000 fans in its first four weeks and generating more than 30,000 page views so far.
In addition to visitors to the page being able to find out further information, post videos and ask questions, the Tenerife Facebook fan page contains a competition which offers visitors the change to win a free holiday to Tenerife.
