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Canary Islands are evaluating the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination passport, but there are doubts
The Canary Islands are evaluating the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination passport in their efforts to relaunch the ailing Islands tourism sector. The Regional Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry, headed up by Yaiza Castilla, has reportedly submitted an...
Gran Canaria Alert Level 2 – Basic DOs and DON’Ts
The Canary Islands Ministry of Health agreed this Sunday, February 21, to, as of Monday, return the island of Tenerife, following just one week at level 1, back to Alert level 2, relaxing restrictions on Gran Canaria down from weeks at Alert Level 3 also to this same Alert Level 2, while El Hierro and Fuerteventura go to Level 1. The islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa remain unchanged, at level 4, and La Palma and La Gomera remain at Level 1. We've gathered togethers some of the most...
Gran Canaria and Tenerife in Alert Level 2, Lanzarote and La Graciosa in Alert Level 4, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro all now on Alert Level 1
The Ministry of Health agreed this Sunday, February 21, to keep the island of Tenerife up and move Gran Canaria down to Alert Level 2 following analysis of the epidemiological indicators for the last 14 days, the islands of El Hierro and Fuerteventura go to Alert Level 1, while Lanzarote and La Graciosa remain unchanged, continuing at Alert Level 4, and La Palma and La Gomera at Alert Level 1. The changes come into effect coinciding with the weekly update of...
President Ángel Víctor Torres is confident that alert levels will drop on Gran Canaria next week
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has expressed his confidence that alert levels currently in force will be lowered on some of the islands as of next week. "The Minister of Health will appear on Sunday with an updated report and will announce that the levels will change as of Monday," Torres said after the Governing Council meeting on Thursday afternoon. According to the president, Gran Canaria will move back down to...
SOS Save Our Summer Travel campaign to help restart UK tourism to Spain from May 1st
A campaign action group, which started last Friday from Mallorca, calling themselves "SOS Travel" is continuing to grow having gained support from several UK tourism companies and the south of Spain's Asociación Provincial de Hoteles y Alojamientos Turísticos de Alicante (APHA - Alicante Provincial Association of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations). They are fighting to advocate for a tourism sector that finds itself against the ropes, particularly when it comes to seasonal destinations like...
Saharan dust continues to blanket The Canary Islands as we wait for heavy rain to potentially arrive by Sunday
The Calima affecting the archipelago for the last day or so continues this Wednesday, but is expected to begin to dissipate visibly from Thursday, which in turn will deactivate the yellow warning for fine North African dust suspended in the air, along with the yellow warning for strong winds, from about 5pm on Wednesday afternoon. Two days of calm clear weather are expected to act as a prelude to a radical change in the forecast, according to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET,...
Migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands subsided in the first half of February, but all the data so far suggests there will be more arriving
The number of migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands has seen a sudden decrease in the first half of February, with just 155 people having arrived irregularly by boat, however overall numbers are up, with 1,008 having arrived in the last two weeks of January and 1,069 in the first two weeks. Are we on the verge of an even greater increase in migrant arrivals to The Canary Islands? If so, what's the plan? Will we distinguish ourselves through our humanitarian response, or will we allow...
Irish man tries to convince border cops at Dublin airport that he is an essential worker so he can fly to The Canary Islands
An Irish citizen has tried to circumvent pandemic restrictions, prohibiting him from leaving his country to holiday in The Canary Islands, by having claimed to the Irish authorities that he was in fact an "essential worker" at a hotel on the south of Tenerife. He allegedly decided to present a typed letter to the police at the airport which he claimed was solid confirmation of his necessary role, as an essential worker, providing an essential service, requiring him to travel and, therefore,...
Gran Canaria Weather: Temperatures rising from Sunday afternoon with Calima expected on Carnival Monday
The Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has forecast Calima for this Carnival Monday, February 15, with Saharan winds from the afternoon on the eastern isles of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Graciosa, and by the end of the day the south and east of Gran Canaria. The weather phenomenon is not expected to produce significant reductions in visibility, however airborne dust will bring an increase in temperatures from the this Sunday afternoon remaining moderately high on Monday and falling...
Guardia Civil redeployment of GRS 8 Reserve & Security Group from Tenerife following altercations in temporary migrant accommodations for minors
The Guardia Civil's GRS Reserve and Security Group number 8 have been deployed once more to Gran Canaria from Tenerife, to provide support to Mogán Local Police on the south of the island, following new incidents in Mogán over the last week. The Town Council requested the deployment, despite the current mayor only last Friday announcing that there had been a clear reduction in problems within complexes and that: “In the municipality the incidence rate has dropped and that is palpable in the...
