| Unlucky Lanzarote is going to have a disappointing | | | | down this year - while it's too early to tell by |
| 2009 - the island, long a winter holidays favourite | | | | exactly how many fewer people will be taking |
| for British and mainland Europeans attracted | | | | holidays in Lanzarote in 2009, it will be a reversal |
| around a million visitors during 2008 - quite a feat | | | | in fortunes for her tourist industry. |
| considering much of Europe and the UK was in | | | | The UK and Germany are both main markets for |
| economic trouble and overseas travel was being | | | | Lanzarote tourism, and while the British economy |
| cut by quite a few families. | | | | fell into recession recently, Germany's economy |
| But even Lanzarote hasn't been able to escape | | | | dropped too and is facing a real recesiion in the |
| the recession, and visitor numbers could be | | | | year ahead. |
| anywhere between five and twenty per cent | | | | |