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Andalusia overtakes Canaries by 823,496 arrivals

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:59:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

823,496 arrivals ahead: Andalusia overtakes the Canaries and pushes them into fourth place

Andalusia has overtaken the Canary Islands in international arrivals. Between January and August 2026 Spain's statistics institute INE counted 11,084,168 foreign tourists in Andalusia and 10,260,672 in the Canaries — cumulatively 823,496 arrivals ahead. The islands no longer appear in Friday's INE release, which lists the period's three leading destinations. What matters is how the gap opened: Andalusia grew 10.4 per cent, the Canaries fell 0.46 per cent. The islands did not lose a single visitor to Andalusia — they stand almost exactly where they stood a yea

140,303 unemployed: Canaries buck the Spanish trend

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:58:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

140,303 unemployed: Canaries down, Spain up by 23,587

The Canary Islands ended September with 140,303 people registered as unemployed: 4,156 fewer than in August and 5,070 fewer than in September 2025. Across Spain the figure rose in the same month by 23,587 to 2,379,505. Of the 17 autonomous communities only the Canaries and La Rioja fell, and the Canary fall was the largest in both absolute and percentage terms. That is the advance data release of the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal of 2 October 2026. What is new is not the islands' direction: this is the third September fall in a row. What is new is that the rest of the country did not follow

Canary nursery places: two deadlines, 11 safe days

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:57:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · EDUCATION

Canary nursery places: two deadlines, eleven safe days

Two calendars have been running side by side since 1 October for the new 0-3 nursery places at five Canary schools. The official gazette, BOC no. 197, sets the application window at 5 to 16 October; a correction issued by the same directorate on the same day moves it to 6 to 20 October — published so far only on the education department's website. Anyone who wants to satisfy both versions files between Tuesday 6 and Friday 16 October: eleven calendar days, eight of them working days.

Arrecife en Vivo: date 8 of 10, four free stages

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:56:01 -0000

LANZAROTE · EVENTS

Arrecife en Vivo: date eight of ten tonight — four stages, zero euros

The street-music festival Arrecife en Vivo plays the eighth of its ten dates on Friday, 2 October 2026: four concerts between 18.00 and 22.30 on four stages in the centre of Arrecife, linked by a pasacalles street parade over two kilometres. Entry is free everywhere. The header of every page on the festival website nonetheless carries a button marked „Entradas“ — it points to a 2025 page on the ticket platform tickety.es and returned a bare „404 Not Found“ on Friday morning.

Balearics pass Canaries on spending by €29 million

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:27:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

A €29 million lead: the Balearics overtake the Canaries on tourist spending

Spain's statistics office INE released the August round of its tourist expenditure survey EGATUR on Friday, and in the cumulative table for January to August 2026 the Balearics stand ahead of the Canaries for the first time this year: €16.367 billion against €16.338 billion, a lead of €29 million or 0.18 per cent — at this scale a rounding difference that deserves an explanation rather than a drama. INE names Catalonia (18.9 per cent of all Spanish spending), Illes Balears (16.4) and the Canaries (16.4) as the largest destinations; the islands are third. Every figure is pro

Canaries in August: €224 a day, spending up 3.07pc

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:26:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

€224 a day: why the Canaries grew at only a third of Spain's pace in August

The Canary Islands took in more money again in August 2026 — but far more slowly than Spain. According to the table annex of the Tourist Expenditure Survey (EGATUR) published today by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, international visitors spent €2.296 billion on the islands in the month of August, 3.07 per cent more than in August 2025. Spain as a whole grew 9.16 per cent in the same month, so the Canary pace amounts to roughly a third of the Spanish one. The increase comes almost entirely from the daily price: spend per day rose 7.56 per cent, the length of stay fel

4.5 million fewer guest days: Canaries lose holiday days

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:25:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

About 4.5 million fewer guest days: the Canaries are not losing visitors, they are losing holiday days

More foreign visitors arrived in the Canary Islands in August than a year earlier — and yet fewer holiday days were spent on the islands. In the provisional annexes published by Spain's statistics office INE on 2 October 2026, Frontur counts 10,260,672 international tourist arrivals cumulatively from January to August, 0.46 per cent fewer than in the same period last year; Egatur puts the average trip length for that period at 7.9 days, 4.6 per cent shorter. Multiplying the two — a cita.news calculation, not a figure published by INE — gives about

Arrecife sport: 7.13 euros instead of 4.28 for visitors

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:24:01 -0000

LANZAROTE · SPORT

Arrecife prices its sports facilities by residence: 7.13 euros instead of 4.28 for children from outside

The official gazette of Las Palmas province published the full text of Arrecife's amended sports tariffs on Friday, and the table has a residence column. A child under 18 pays 4.28 euros to enter the Parque Deportivo Municipal Puerto de Arrecife if registered in the municipality and 7.13 euros if not: two thirds more. For adults the surcharge is 17.8 percent, and for physiotherapy at the Palacio Municipal de los Deportes exactly 100 percent. Against the March 2025 table, almost every amount rises by about 1.7 percent. The notice gives no date of entry

Mogán tourism plan: objections until 2 December

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:23:01 -0000

GRAN CANARIA · PLANNING

Mogán: deadline added late — objections to the tourism plan until 2 December

The plan that will reshape Playa de Mogán has been on public display since 28 September, but the Las Palmas provincial gazette printed no deadline for objections at all. On Friday the Dirección General de Ordenación del Territorio y Cohesión Territorial corrected the error and inserted the missing words, “por plazo de DOS MESES” — for a period of two months. Those two months run from the correction, not from the first notice: the cut-off is Wednesday 2 December 2026. Anyone who has already filed does not have

976,432 contributors: Canaries only tenth in growth

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:22:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

976,432 contributors: the highest in this series, tenth in growth

On the last day of September there were 976,432 people registered with Spain's social security system in the Canary Islands, more than at any other month-end the body publishes for the islands since January 2006. The high conceals a second figure: on our own reading of the same workbook, the number of contributors grew by 2.84 per cent over a year, against 3.39 per cent for Spain. That puts the islands tenth of 19 territories, behind the Balearics and Valencia. Both statements are true, and both sit in the same table.

Vuelta Lanzarote: Mirador del Río cut off from 09:30

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:19:01 -0000

LANZAROTE · TRAVEL

Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote: three and a half hours with no access to Mirador del Río and Castillo de San José

On Saturday 3 October the Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote cuts the access roads to two of César Manrique's buildings: to Mirador del Río from 09:30 to 11:30, and to Castillo de San José from 11:30 to 13:00 — three and a half hours running straight through the morning. The warning sits as a banner on cactlanzarote.com, checked by cita.news on 2 October at 08:12 UTC. Anyone holding a ticket for that Saturday should know which half of the day still works for which site.

Infecar closed: manga festival moves, 3-day pass €18

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:18:01 -0000

GRAN CANARIA · EVENTS

Building work at Infecar sends the manga festival to a park and a castle: three-day pass €18

The 15th Festival del Manga de Las Palmas and Comic-Can Gran Canaria open this Friday, 2 October 2026, for the first time in the middle of the island capital. Because the Infecar exhibition centre is closed to the public for building work, the fifteenth edition is split between the Parque de San Telmo and the Museo Castillo de Mata. The three-day pass costs €18 according to the organisers, and children up to six get in free. Nobody has put a figure on how many people the new sites hold.

Masdanza Junior: 20 euros to dance, 5 euros to watch

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:17:01 -0000

GRAN CANARIA · DANCE

Masdanza Junior in Las Palmas: 20 euros to dance, 5 euros to watch — and online only

On Saturday 3 October, from 18:00 to 20:00, the MASDANZA festival holds a masterclass for 12- to 17-year-olds at the Sala Gabriel Rodó in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and it turns the usual prices upside down: dancers pay 20 euros, people watching from a seat pay 5. Both tickets are sold, according to the ticket page, online only; nothing is sold at the hall. Minors have to bring a completed parental authorisation form.

El Hierro: 7 festival sessions only in the ticket shop

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:15:01 -0000

EL HIERRO · EVENTS

Luchada Cósmica on El Hierro starts today — seven sessions only the ticket shop lists

The Luchada Cósmica festival starts on Friday 2 October 2026 at 18:30 in La Frontera on El Hierro and runs until Sunday 4 October. The full programme, seven sessions and three prices, exists in exactly one place online: the ticketing platform tickety.es. The host council's own events agenda reports "Sin eventos para este período" for October 2026, and the Turismo de Canarias agenda lists eight October dates for El Hierro — but not this festival.

Weekend on Gran Canaria: SUM Festival, Fetish Pride opening and Tourifest (2–4 October)

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:02:37 -0000

NIGHTLIFE

Weekend on Gran Canaria: SUM Festival, Fetish Pride opening and Tourifest

The first October weekend brings two big anchors at once: in Arucas the Gran Canaria SUM Festival stages two days of pop, indie and rock, and at the Yumbo Centre Maspalomas Fetish Pride begins its first programme weekend. What is on from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 October — for residents and visitors alike.

Twelve months' rent if a landlord ends the tenancy

info@cita.news (Julia Roca Bethencourt) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:35:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · HOUSING

Twelve months' rent: why ending a tenancy costs money from Friday

Since this morning the Spanish state gazette carries the rule that from Friday changes every tenancy of a main home: a landlord who refuses to renew once the minimum term is up must compensate the tenant with at least twelve months' rent for a comparable dwelling. For the Canaries the reform comes with a catch — its strongest tenant protection depends on a declaration no municipality in the islands holds.

Canary GDP 2025: €27,190 a head, 2.1 per cent growth

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:34:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

€27,190 a head: the Canaries grew by 2.1 per cent in 2025

The Canary economy grew by 2.1 per cent in volume terms in 2025, against 2.6 per cent for Spain as a whole; only Cantabria (1.7), Asturias and the Basque Country (1.9 each) grew more slowly. Gross domestic product per resident stood at €27,190 in the islands — 20.6 per cent below the Spanish average of €34,237 and 34.8 per cent below the EU-27 figure of €41,700. The numbers come from the regional accounts of Spain's statistics institute INE, published on 30 September 2026; the 2025 figures are an advance estimate.

Plenilunio: Avenida Marítima closed from 20:00 Friday

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0000

TENERIFE · EVENTS

500 drones over La Gesta: Avenida Marítima closed from 20:00 on Friday

The closure list is out: the Ayuntamiento is shutting the Avenida Marítima between the Callejón Bouza and the Plaza del Cabildo on Friday 2 October from 20:00 to 22:15 and on Saturday 3 October from 19:30 to 23:59. Traffic goes through the Vía Litoral tunnel and the Plaza de España car park can be reached only from the north. The drones fly at 20:30 and 22:00 from the esplanade beside the La Gesta playground. Only the opening day is wrong: the council writes “este viernes 3 de octubre” — and 3 October 2026 is a Saturday.

El Paso Oktoberfest: ten hours on stage, no price

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:44:02 -0000

LA PALMA · EVENTS

El Paso Oktoberfest on 3 October: ten hours of stage time, no entry price published

On Saturday 3 October, Calle Manuel Taño in El Paso on La Palma becomes a street party from 14:00 until midnight: the seventh Oktoberfest, six acts across seven stage slots, and ten bars and restaurants named by name serving tapas of German inspiration. What no announcement contains is a price — not for entry, not for beer, not for food — and no traffic order for a street that will hold a stage for ten hours. Checked on 30 September 2026.

Starmus La Palma: free concert, no venue 22 days out

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:43:01 -0000

LA PALMA · EVENTS

Starmus closing concert on La Palma is free and starts at 7pm — and 22 days out it has no venue

Starmus VIII ends on Thursday 22 October at 7pm with the concert "Space Station Earth" on La Palma. The festival's shop states that it is "open to the public at no charge" — free, in other words. Where it will be played appears nowhere: starmus.com gives only the name of the island. And the Teatro Circo de Marte, the one hall the Cabildo de La Palma named back in July, sold that evening to someone else long ago — Abraham Cupeiro, 8.30pm, 22 €. Checked on 30 September between 07:48 and 07:55 Canary time.

8 euros: three visiting companies at the Teatro Victoria

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:42:01 -0000

TENERIFE · CULTURE

8 euros a performance: why the Teatro Victoria brings three visiting companies at cinema prices

Six performances, three visiting companies from Sardinia, Galicia and Catalonia, every one at 19:30 and every one at 8 euros: the Teatro Victoria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife has put its whole October dance block on sale. The price is not a promotion but the theatre's standing tariff: the Victoria keeps 8 euros as the general ticket, 5 euros for students of a list of schools it names one by one, and 6 euros for holders of the European Youth Card.

Keroxen at Cueva de los Verdes: 20 euros, four nights

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:41:01 -0000

LANZAROTE · CULTURE

A concert inside a lava tube for 20 euros: Keroxen plays four nights in the Cueva de los Verdes

For four nights in October and November, a chamber inside the lava tube of the La Corona volcano becomes a concert hall: CACT Lanzarote is selling tickets for Keroxen Lanzarote in the Cueva de los Verdes at 20 euros, each night at 20:00 and lasting 60 minutes. The ordinary daytime visit to the same cave costs 17 euros. How many seats the hall holds is not published by CACT — and that is precisely what decides whether you can take your time booking.

Sold out in Las Palmas: from 40 euros on Fuerteventura

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:40:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · EVENTS

From 40 euros on Fuerteventura: “This is Michael” is sold out in Las Palmas

Anyone who wanted to see the tribute show “This is Michael” on Saturday 17 October at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is too late: the venue's own page lists the 20:00 performance in the Sala Sinfónica as “Agotado” — sold out — and publishes no price at all, checked on 30 September 2026 at 7.47am Canary time. Two days later, on Monday 19 October, the same production plays at 20:00 at the Palacio de Formación y Congresos in Puerto del Rosario on Fuerteventura — and there the hall was still open the same morning at 7.49am, with twelve zones to choose

Two mega ships, seven hours: Las Palmas on 9 October

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:39:01 -0000

GRAN CANARIA · CRUISES

Two mega ships, seven hours: Las Palmas on 9 October

On Friday 9 October two of the season's largest ships are alongside in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the same time: P&O Cruises' Iona, 344.08 metres, and MSC Virtuosa, 331.43 metres. According to the published schedules their calls overlap from 11.00 to 18.00 — seven hours in which Vegueta, Santa Ana cathedral, Triana and Las Canteras are fuller than on an ordinary October day. If you want to see them in peace, pick another morning. If you sell, guide or drive a taxi in the city, these are exactly the days the money comes in.

Canary hotels: rate up 6.74%, occupancy down 0.20 points

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:38:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

Canary hotels: room rate up 6.74 per cent, occupancy down 0.20 points

In the month of August 2026 Canary hotels took in more guests than a year earlier and charged more per room, and were still slightly emptier. The national statistics institute INE counts 1,112,371 guests, 4.96 per cent more than in August 2025, at 158.40 euros per occupied room, 6.74 per cent more. Bed occupancy in that same month slipped from 82.21 to 82.01 per cent. The islands had 2.94 per cent more beds on the market, and guests stayed fewer nights.

Canaries: €197 a day, 4 million fewer guest days

info@cita.news (Martin Kosinski) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:37:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · ECONOMY

€197 a day and still less revenue: the Canaries lose 4 million guest days

Foreign visitors to the Canary Islands are spending more per holiday day than a year ago — and the islands are still taking in less. For January to July 2026 Spain's statistics office INE puts international tourist spending in the archipelago at €14.041 billion, 0.19 per cent below the same period last year. Spain as a whole grew 7.81 per cent, to €82.054 billion. Daily spending on the islands rose 5.19 per cent to €197, while the average trip shortened by 4.6 per cent to 7.9 days. All figures are provisional and were published on 1 September 2026.

Bono Domingo Santa Cruz: 23 shops on 4 October

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:53:02 -0000

TENERIFE · RETAIL

€1,500 per shop: Santa Cruz's Bono Domingo on 4 October works in only 23 stores

Sunday 4 October 2026 brings the first of four Bono Domingo days in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: a voucher worth €25 that costs the buyer €12.50, with the town hall paying the other half. It cannot be spent across the whole city, though. On the list published by the platform bonoconsumosantacruz.com, at 16:56 Canary time on Monday 28 September, exactly 23 shops carried the label "Domingo 4 Oct" — 22 of them in the Centro-Ifara district and just one in Salud-La Salle. Each of those 23 has exactly €1,500 of redemption credit set aside for that Sunday, €34,500 in total.

5 euros: Contemporáneo on three islands, 4-6 October

info@cita.news (Lucía Medina Reyes) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:52:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · CULTURE

5 euros a night: Contemporáneo festival plays three islands from 4 to 6 October

Three nights, three islands, 5 euros each time: from 4 to 6 October 2026 the Catalan pianist and mathematician Laura Farré Rozada performs her programme "Del caos al Cosmos" at the Auditorio de Antigua on Fuerteventura, at the Convento de Santo Domingo in Teguise on Lanzarote and at the Espacio Cultural El Secadero in Los Llanos de Aridane on La Palma — each time at 20:00 and lasting 60 minutes. It is the island leg of the VI Festival Contemporáneo de Canarias, which the Canary Islands government is staging from 21 September to 11 October. It has nothing to do with El H

Petite Lorena: Lanzarote sold out, Fuerteventura €22

info@cita.news (CITA News Redaktion) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:51:01 -0000

CANARY ISLANDS · EVENTS

From 22 euros on Fuerteventura: why Petite Lorena's Lanzarote night is already sold out

Canarian comedian Petite Lorena brings her solo show "Tremenda" to the two eastern islands in October: on 9 October to the Palacio de Formación y Congresos in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, and on 11 October to the Teatro Municipal de San Bartolomé on Lanzarote. For Lanzarote there is nothing left — promoter and ticket seller both show "Entradas agotadas", as checked on Monday 28 September 2026 at 16:56 Canary time. For Fuerteventura, at the same moment, tickets are on sale from 22 euros. On the Lanzarote start time the sources contradict each other: the prom

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Andalusia overtakes Canaries by 823,496 arrivals

140,303 unemployed: Canaries buck the Spanish trend

Canary nursery places: two deadlines, 11 safe days

Arrecife en Vivo: date 8 of 10, four free stages

Balearics pass Canaries on spending by €29 million

Canaries in August: €224 a day, spending up 3.07pc

4.5 million fewer guest days: Canaries lose holiday days

Arrecife sport: 7.13 euros instead of 4.28 for visitors

Mogán tourism plan: objections until 2 December

976,432 contributors: Canaries only tenth in growth

Vuelta Lanzarote: Mirador del Río cut off from 09:30

Infecar closed: manga festival moves, 3-day pass €18

Masdanza Junior: 20 euros to dance, 5 euros to watch

El Hierro: 7 festival sessions only in the ticket shop

Weekend on Gran Canaria: SUM Festival, Fetish Pride opening and Tourifest (2–4 October)

Twelve months' rent if a landlord ends the tenancy

Canary GDP 2025: €27,190 a head, 2.1 per cent growth

Plenilunio: Avenida Marítima closed from 20:00 Friday

El Paso Oktoberfest: ten hours on stage, no price

Starmus La Palma: free concert, no venue 22 days out

8 euros: three visiting companies at the Teatro Victoria

Keroxen at Cueva de los Verdes: 20 euros, four nights

Sold out in Las Palmas: from 40 euros on Fuerteventura

Two mega ships, seven hours: Las Palmas on 9 October

Canary hotels: rate up 6.74%, occupancy down 0.20 points

Canaries: €197 a day, 4 million fewer guest days

Bono Domingo Santa Cruz: 23 shops on 4 October

5 euros: Contemporáneo on three islands, 4-6 October

Petite Lorena: Lanzarote sold out, Fuerteventura €22