Tourism Observatory of the Canary Islands.

Abstract

Regarding tourist arrivals, 89% were foreign tourists, while 1.7 million, the remaining 11%, have their residence in other regions of Spain. Regarding foreign tourists, the United Kingdom shows the highest figures, slightly over 5 million tourists in 2018, representing approxi-mately a third of the tourists in the Canary Islands. Germans, with around 3 million, represent 20% of tourist arrivals, and in the third place in terms of arrivals are the tourists from the rest of Spain. Taken together, the Nordic countries represent 11% of tourist arrivals, while other relevant countries ranging between 2 and 4% of the arrivals are the

Strategic use of ecosystem services and co‐benefits for Sustainable Development Goals

“…The Canary Islands' governance is embedded in a complex, multilayered system comprising the Spanish national level, the Autonomous region level, two provincial governments, and an elected Island Council on each island. Tourism steers the local economy and improves local economic conditions (Antonova et al, 2021) but has caused considerable environmental impacts.…”