Visitors to the Canary Islands 2022, by island of destination

Tenerife was the Canary Island that received the largest number of visitors in 2022, adding up to more than 5.8 million international and Spanish tourists. Gran Canaria ranked second, with a total of approximately 3.8 million holidaymakers that same year.

International tourists in the Canaries

Most visitors to the Canary Islands are from abroad, making this archipelago one of the key hubs for international tourism in Spain. In 2022, foreign travelers in the Canaries spent an average of 8.7 nights enjoying the islands’ great weather. Whereas this figure exhibited a slight decline in that year, the daily expenditure of overseas visitors has been on the rise and, despite the crisis caused by the coronavirus, continued to grow in 2022, reaching an estimated average of 163 euros.

What is the accommodation offer in the Canary Islands?

In 2021, there were over 370 hotels open in this Spanish archipelago. Around 65 percent were located in Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Altogether, the seven islands offered roughly 167 thousand hotel beds. Tenerife alone accounted for 56.8 thousand of them. The hotel industry was extremely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For hotels in the Canary Islands, this crisis translated into a plunge of approximately 30 percentage points in the room occupancy rate. In 2021, this key performance indicator exhibited a timid recovery, exposing the long way this industry has to go until it reaches pre-pandemic levels.