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Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-00:08
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There is a desire to travel.
That is undoubtedly.
Everyone wants to pack their bags.
And even more, during Holy Week, either around the corner (
nearby destinations
continue to be popular) or reaching the other side of the planet.
Not in vain, places like Lima,
Bogotá
or Miami top the list of those preferred by Spaniards outside our borders.
In the case of the closest enclaves, we opted for some islanders such as Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Arrecife
.
These account for 29%, 36% and 25% more flight searches, respectively, to spend
Easter
compared to last year, according to studies by companies such as Kayak, a leading travel search engine.
The Canary Islands, among the preferred destinations.
It also indicates that the
number of reservations
, in general, by national travelers has increased by 12% compared to the same period of the previous year.
Another fact: 30% of Spaniards want to explore new destinations this year.
For this reason, some like Seville, one of the
traditional
Easter classics , are beginning to decline.
And domestic flights in general are the ones that are growing the most (18% compared to last year).
Even so,
the capital of Seville
takes a break with a slight decrease in the number of flights compared to last year.
Flight search
To prepare the report, Kayak has taken into account the flight searches carried out on its portal and associated websites in the period between October 1, 2023 and January 15 of this year.
Once obtained, it has compared this data with that of the same period of the previous year for
travel dates
between March 22 and April 1, 2024 compared to the days between March 31 and April 11, 2023. with departure from
any Spanish airport
.
Prices are average, referring to round-trip flights in economy class.
The historic center of Lima.
The company PureSpectrum has been in charge of conducting an online survey among 1,000
respondents in Spain
between November 15 and 23, 2023. The sample was weighted proportionally by region to facilitate direct comparison.
In this way, it has been known that air fares have decreased by 6% compared to the previous Easter.
"With this drop, those who plan to travel these days now have
more options to venture
off the beaten path and embrace the excitement of experimentation," says the commercial director of the portal for Europe, Natalia Diez-Rivas.
Panoramic of Bogotá.
The study makes it clear that the Canary Islands are the favorites of the Spanish.
At an international level, this Easter we say goodbye to destinations such as Buenos Aires,
Cairo or Denpasar
, the capital of Bali, most in demand 12 months ago, but whose flight searches have decreased by almost half.
To replace them, the aforementioned destinations such as
Lima, Miami and Bogotá are emerging strongly,
where flight searches seem to have grown by up to 41%.
As for the European continent, they grow by 13% with key places such as Istanbul, Budapest, Prague, Copenhagen and the tourist cities
of Milan, Naples and Florence
.
All of them are in the preference of Spanish travelers with an average of 22% more flight searches.
For their part, the historic
Berlin, Dublin and Lisbon
are devalued by up to 7%.
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