For Spaniards, a holiday regularly amounts to a trip away from home as far as to travelling to visit a friend or relative in another part of Spain for a few days. They see no point in paying for hotel accommodation or private apartment or villa rental in their own country. This is quite different to most Euopeans who rush to Spain and the Canary Islands at their first oppotunity!
Even though the South East Coastal regions of Spain and especially The Canary Islands stay warm all year round, you won't normally see the Spanish lounging out around the tourist resorts similar to Bristish attitutes of avoiding the need to spend their main holidays hanging out around the Coast of Britain.
However, as the economic downturn continues to stifle United Kingdom, the island of Tenerife has noticed a measurable reduction in the number of Brits travelling from the UK to Tenerife since 2008 and people believe this trend will continue for some time to come, The icelandic volcano erupting with such power sure doesn't help!
However the growing numbers of Spanish tourists in Tenerife is on the increase even though the Department of Tourist Investigation of the Tenerife Tourism Board announced that October was down by 6.9% on last year for total visitors to the Island. The ten months up to October had shown a 1.38% overall increase to 4,443,426 tourists in 2008.
The online holiday firm specialising in private villa and apartments bookings confirmed that travellers from the UK to Spain was still bouyant and that plans to open a new Tenerife Apartments is going ahead as planned and even opening up specialist areas as far south as Cape Town. They have said that the only area on mainland Spain unchanged in visitor mix is Marbella yet acknowledge that multi language options need to be added to their web sites in expectation of the changes be eperienced elsewhere in travel.