Although the number of tourists visiting Lanzarote has increased, the length of time they are spending there is decreasing and has not exceeded 10 days on average for almost twenty years since 2004, despite efforts by the Cabildo and tourism departments to encourage longer stays.
They have been promoting the destination as a place for a longer holiday, to reduce the ecological impact on the island and on the impact infrastructures, however, the trend of increasingly shorter stays has not stopped.
The data from June this year highlights this as almost 240,000 travellers visited Lanzarote, and made close to 1.5 million overnight stays. However, the average stay per traveller on the island was 7.34 days, which is exactly one day less than ten years ago when it was 8.34 days.
In fact, up until 2017, the average stay of tourists in Lanzarote exceeded eight days in June almost every year, but since then the average length of stay has been dropping to a little over seven days today.
Exactly ten years, in June 2013, fewer people visited Lanzarote (just under 200,000) but they made more than 1.3 million overnight stays, which meant the average length was 8.34 days.
The Danish and Germans are staying the longest.
By nationality in June, the 1,350 Danes who visited the island were those who stayed the longest, since they exceeded 18 days on average. Next were the 16,445 German visitors who stayed on average for more than 10 days.
Travellers from the Netherlands (5,357 visitors) and Belgium (2,610) stayed for more than 9 days, and visitors from Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, and Iceland were also there for more than 9 days, but their numbers added together didn’t exceed 700 people.
Visitors from Ireland (approx 30,000) and Poland (3,230) both stayed for longer than 8 days on average, and all the rest of the nationalities spent less than eight days on the island including the British.
