According to a survey from the Asociación de Centros y Escuelas Profesionales de Buceo de Lanzarote (BUCO) integrated with AETUR, a total of 103,282 tourists practiced diving in Lanzarote during 2013.
The study, published in Centros de Datos for Lanzarote found that 35.3% of the divers are from the United Kingdom, 19% from the mainland of Spain and 16.2% from Germany. Other nationalities worth a mention are the Irish with 6.5% and 6% Dutch. Diving is an all year round activity with the peak in the summer, the figures for 2013 can be broken down into Q1 22,415, Q2 17,263, Q3 39,517 and Q4 24,087 visitors.
Typically the divers had heard about Lanzarote through personal recommendations from friends and family, although they also obtained information through the internet and magazines. Scuba divers are very loyal visitors, returning on an average of read more »