August 2024
According to the Tourist Expenditure Survey, carried out by the Canary Islands Statistics Institute (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 because of the existence of a tourist tax.
If a tourist tax were to be implemented in the Canary Islands, less than 20% of the tourists surveyed would not be willing to pay it. This percentage is only 7% among residents of Switzerland and just over 11% among residents of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. Among those least willing to pay the tax are tourists resident 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.
The majority of tourists would accept a tax ranging between 1 and 3 euros per day, exactly 89% of tourists willing to pay it.
Other data on the tourist profile
The Tourism Expenditure Survey also shows that 91% of visits were for holidays, 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. Tourists from the rest of Spain were the least likely, with 76.7%.
Sixty percent of the tourists who visited the Canary Islands in this quarter stayed in hotels. Other types of accommodation chosen were tourist flats and villas (16.8%) and homes rented from a private individual (14.1%). The average stay of tourists is 8.86 days for this second quarter of the year.
More information at ISTAC