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Lanzarote´s Main Resort Revitalised

 Lanzarote´s grand old dame of tourism – Puerto del Carmen – is about to get a facelift.  As local authorities react to increased competition from younger and fresher rivals for the custom of overseas visitors.  Once a small fishing village called La Tiñosa, the resort has exploded since package tourism first took off on Lanzarote back in the [...]

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Death Of The Spanish Holiday Premature

Despite the credit crunch and the weakening pound British tourists clearly remain reluctant to surrender their holidays in Spain.  As new research just released by AENA, the Spanish airport authority, reveals that visitor numbers to Lanzarote from the UK have jumped by 15.6% during the first half of 2008.   The AENA figures will confound many industry [...]

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Lanzarote – Discover the Island of Fire

Whilst Lanzarote is a Spanish island, it in fact lies off the coast of Saharan Africa.  And like the rest of the Canaries has a cultural identity that is more Latin American than Iberian.  A legacy of the islands historic strategic position as a trading post in-between the Old World and the New.   This favorable geographic [...]

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