August 2024
According to the Tourist Expenditure Survey, prepared by the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), 76.5% of tourists who visited the Canary Islands during the second quarter of 2024 do not exclude a destination from their list of options simply due to the existence of a tourist tax.
If a tourist tax were implemented in the Canary Islands, less than 20% of the tourists surveyed would not be willing to pay it. This percentage among residents of Switzerland reaches only 7% and among residents of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany just over 11%. Among the people who show the least willingness to pay this fee are tourists residing in Ireland, with 29.3%, and the rest of Spain, with 27.5%.
The most chosen purpose for which they would pay the tourist tax is to improve and protect the environment, followed by any Government purpose and to improve living conditions in the Canary Islands.
Most tourists would accept a rate ranging between 1 and 3 euros per day, exactly 89% of tourists willing to pay it.
Other information about the tourist profile
The Tourist Expenditure Survey also shows that 91% of visits were made for vacations, recreation and leisure. Tourists from Ireland and the United Kingdom were the ones who chose this reason the most, with 99.3% and 96%, respectively. And residents in the rest of the Spanish territory, the least, with 76.7%.
60% of the tourists who visited the Canary Islands this quarter stayed in hotels. Other types of accommodation chosen were tourist apartments and villas (16.8%) and homes rented to an individual (14.1%). The average stay of tourists is 8.86 days for this second quarter of the year.
More information at ISTAC, Grafcan.
