Often twice a week, this new route will join Tuesday and Saturday the Tenerife South Airport with the city. Vueling is the low cost of Iberia affiliate and far connects the island with several destinations like Barcelona, Málaga and Seville.
The Vice President of the Cabildo and island Councillor of tourism, José Manuel Bermúdez, stresses that "with this new connection increase our growth expectations in France, a country in which we had marked increase the presence of the island this year as a way to balance our flow of tourists and not rely solely on a few markets".
According to the Adviser, "our challenge now is getting these planes have a high occupation and we thus consolidate our presence in France". "This market - underlines Bermúdez -"has a high potential for growth, but already gives us some 100,000 visitors a year"."
Over the past year Tenerife tourism strategy with the neighbouring country has been based on promoting diversity of tourism of the island, its landscapes, traditions, culture or active tourism and strengthen the presence of the island in fairs, media, online campaigns or social networks
In this way the number of French visitors has been an increase of the 29.1 percent in a market which is 1.4 per cent of the total number of tourists. The profile of the French tourist has an average of 49 years and travels in family in greater rate than other visitors.
Vueling will operate two new direct lines with Toulouse from April
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