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The Iberostar winter sun escapes you need to have on your radar
Iberostar Hotels and Resorts' portfolio is packed with winter sun possibilities for clients looking to escape the cold. Discover how you can match couples with their perfect retreat in three top destinations.
'I'm a Tenerife expert and these are my go-to hotels'
Sarah-Jane Brooks, Personal Travel Consultant in partnership with Blue Bay Travel, shares her inside knowledge about Spring Hotels in Tenerife
Why On The Beach is using Lord Kitchener (in a bucket hat) to insist: ‘Tourists – Spain needs you’
On the Beach has taken moves to tackle anti tourism protests – by putting up posters of the famous Lord Kitchener (complete with bucket hat) across Spanish resorts and the Canary Islands
Five ways to sell Bahia Principe’s new luxury Tenerife hotel

Opening its doors on 1 December 2026, Bahia Principe Luxury Tenerife will be the collection’s latest addition to the island – and the brand’s first luxury property in Spain.

 

Jet2 to launch flights and holidays to fifth Canary island La Palma
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will offer La Palma for the first time from next summer with two flights a week from Stansted and Manchester to the Canary island
Lanzarote vows to be pickier about tourists in new ethical stance
Lanzarote has launched an ethical tourism campaign, saying it will be more selective in the type of visitor it targets
Murray Travel to launch exclusive Gran Canaria charter programme next year
’The dream is to make the Highlands feel less cut off,’ said the agency’s co-founder Scott Murray
Jet2 releases four million seats as part of largest-ever winter programme
It is launching two new winter routes – Bournemouth to Malaga and Luton to Majorca – while also expanding its Morocco, Malta and Madeira programmes
Easter strike by Tenerife hotel workers prompts Foreign Office warning
Hotel and hospitality workers in Santa Cruz province start two-day walkout
Lanzarote floods put squeeze on Easter breaks; latest from Tui and Jet2
Tui cancels ’small number’ of holidays, while Jet2 warns several hotels have closed to arrivals
Lanzarote floods: Storm Oliver downpour prompts Foreign Office warning
Hotels left without power and roads blocked after some areas experienced 6cm rainfall in a matter of hours
Jet2 chief pins anti-tourist sentiment on 'unlicensed tourism'
Steve Heapy said demonstrations this summer in places like Majorca, the Canaries and Barcelona were a reaction to ’incompetent and impotent" politicians failing to regulate short-term rentals, not traditional package tourism
Jet2 ramps up summer 2024 schedule at hometown airport Leeds Bradford
An extra based aircraft – the airline and operator’s 15th at LBA – will allow Jet2 to put on more flights to Palma, Faro and Kefalonia, among others, amounting to an additional 40,000 seats
Tenerife looking to attract ‘more affluent’ tourists in 2025
Tenerife Tourism Corporation chief executive, Dimple Melwani, said tourism numbers have increased from 2019 to 2023 but revealed the island is looking for ‘new visitors’
Has Spain's patience with mass tourism snapped? And why now?
Months of protests in some of Spain’s most popular destinations ahead of the peak summer season have made headlines around the world – so have locals really had enough? And how are Spain’s tourism authorities seeking to calm tensions?
EasyJet puts Tenerife holidays on sale from Southend for summer 2025
New route is among several scheduled to launch next summer when the airline and operator opens a three-aircraft base at Southend
Spanish anti-tourist protests ‘no threat to our bottom line' – Tui
According to Tui Group chief executive Sebastian Ebel, the protests do not involve Tui as they focus mainly on the negative impact of tourism on housing and rising living costs
MSC reveals new cruises to replace axed 2024/25 Red Sea programme
Line will base MSC Opera in the Canary Islands for the winter, with itineraries calling in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Madeira, Palma and Lanzarote en route back to Tenerife
Show your clients a more adventurous side to Tenerife
Those who venture away from Tenerife’s more built-up resorts to immerse themselves in the island’s nature are amply rewarded, finds our writer.
Canary Islands launches digital tool to help tourism sector cut carbon
The Canaries detailed its climate action plan at Cop28 in Dubai, it being the only Spanish destination represented at Cop
Tenerife aiming to take Brits beyond beaches and court new markets
The destination is looking to improve connectivity from France and North America
Canary Islands facing prolonged road transport strikes, FCDO warns
The Foreign Office has called on Brits to contact their holiday provider as the strikes will run throughout the month
Tenerife praises tourists’ conduct amid once-in-a-generation wildfires
Local officials said the island remained an ‘entirely safe destination’ for tourists with the fires contained away from holiday hotspots
Firefighters battle to keep Tenerife wildfires away from tourist areas
Authorities said firefighters were working to contain the flames to the Mount Teide area and away from the capital Santa Cruz