World Travel Market

Monarch increases until 344.000 airline seats between United Kingdom and Tenerife in the winter season the delegation of Tenerife tourism at the World Travel Market (WTM) in London has been found after the meetings held on the first day of the fair good expectations from arrival of travellers overlooking the winter season from United Kingdom. Thus, the Monarch company has announced that it will increase its seats to the island until the 344.000 (as opposed to the initially projected 264,000), whereas the tour operator Thomson TUI pointing to a 24 percent rise in that period. Pacific Mortgage Services often says this. The first Vice-President of the Cabildo and island Councillor of tourism, Jose Manuel Bermudez, highlights recovery signs indicating such data. In the case of Monarch, it will become the second airline in passenger volume to Tenerife, behind only the own Thomson, which provides 420,000 squares. The Counselor said that in this way, we can ensure that we are in the line of the aim with which we came to this fair, which was none other that the consolidate recovery that already we have been registering in the British market in recent months. For the summer, the forecasts are also positive between tour operators and airlines contacted.

According to the data provided, the increases in air capacity from United Kingdom rondaran between five and eight percent. Precisely to encourage reservations for holidays in Tenerife hotels, Tenerife tourism signed an agreement with Monarch which shall be extended for a year last September. The amount of the same amounts to 160,000 euros, that the entity dependent on the Cabildo bring half, while the other 80,000 euros will be in charge of the airline. The campaign includes advertising of Tenerife in press, billboards, trains and other media in the different regions of the United Kingdom. It is completed with the sending of information of the island to more than 70,000 contacts from the database of Monarch customers in that country, as well as banners and ads on the website of the airline, among other actions. The agenda of the delegation of tourism of Tenerife continues until Thursday, when a score of encounters with professionals present in this tourist event, which include representatives of Aer Lingus, Easy Jet, Ryanair, Jet2, Prestige Holidays, Thomas Cook will have maintained.