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Tourism Industry Chiefs for the Spanish Canary Islands are expecting as many as 300,000 extra tourists could visit the Islands this winter as a result of last minute holidaymakers avoiding wintersun favouites, Egypt and Tunisia, due to political unrest within the countries.
Tour operators have slashed flights to Egypt and many agencies have given their customers the option to either cancel their trips to North Africa altogether, or to exchange their holiday destination without incurring a penalty.
The deputy minster for tourism for the regional government told a news conference: "Tourism operators have said that up to 300,000 extra tourists may come in the coming months for the winter season in the Canaries, which ends in late April, although it is a situation that is changing almost daily."
Minsiter Ricardo Armas continued to explain how the arrival of these last minute tourists will boost the occupancy rate at hotels in the Islands to between 80 and 85 percent.
Over recent years the Canary Islands have struggled to compete and lost business to the emerging North African destinations of Egypt and Tunisia for those seeking a winter break by the beach, but the political unrest that erupted last month has forced tourists to rethink.
He explained how the tourists who are exchanging resorts are mostly British, German and Scandinavian, although they expect the arrival of many Italian, French, Polish and Russian tourists aswell.
Spain is currently the world's fourth-most visited country behind France, the United States and China, according to figures from the UN World Tourism Organisation.