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Jeanne Quigley ponders the question of where all the tourists have gone to in Fuerteventura, and tell us why we should all hurry back.Eighteen months ago, Ryanair began flying from Dublin to Fuerteventura.
Since then, there are three flights arriving here every week. These flights are packed full, winter and summer. Yet, when you’re walking around Corralejo the amount of Irish accents you’ll hear are few and far between.
After all, if the guts of 1,000 people are landing on the island every week, some of them must be on this part of the island. Or so you’d think.
And this also begs the question – where are they all finding the accommodation? I know that quite a few people have bought properties out here, either in Corralejo or in Caleta de Fuste. So unless everyone on the planes knows someone who knows someone who has an apartment or villa – which seems highly unlikely – it must be through the internet.
But on the other hand, there are loads of places available all the time for holiday rentals. There are To Let signs everywhere, long term, short term, even by the day!
Wherever they are, the Irish tourists form a very small part of the overall visitors here. We only make up something like 7 percent, with the main tourists coming from the UK and Germany.
Of course, there are chartered flights as well, bringing visitors to the apartment complexes on a flight/accommodation deal. And this goes for visitors from other countries as well. But it seems this type of visitor is becoming scarcer.
While tourists are arriving here, there is a problem in that they are staying in the ‘all-inclusives’. The hotels that offer a package of full or half board and accommodation.
So money is not spent in the businesses in towns. If you’ve paid for all your meals in advance, most people will avail of this and never venture outside to a café or restaurant.
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