5 … Visit parrots and dolphins in the north.

Begin your visit on the north coast, at Loro Parque, which first opened as a parrot sanctuary in 1972. Today, the award-winning zoological and marine park features gorillas, which the park breeds; more than 300 species of parrots, including daily parrot shows; a 60-foot-long walk-through and transparent tunnel at the bottom of the park’s aquarium, with sharks swimming all around; plus penguins, tigers and decent restaurants. The well-choreographed marine shows, however, variously featuring sea lions, dolphins and Orcas, are spectacular, though the drowning death of a trainer by killer whale here in 2009 is a reminder that for all of the training, the animals remain wild.

Next, looking at a Tenerife map head further south, stopping to ascend the snowy peaks of El Teide (12,195 feet), the world’s third-largest volcano, dormant since 1909. From the top, you can sometimes see the entire island, but to get there, you’ll need to clinch one of only 150 permits issued daily from the national park office in Santa Cruz; bring your passport. Or take the eight-minute cable car ride, which gets you up to about 11,600 feet.

4 … Settle into Costa Adeje, then pick a beach.

Budget travelers on a Tenerife holidays package deal - hotel plus airfare - often stay in Costa Adeje, on the south coast. It’s not hard to see why, as there’s a beach for every occasion: Playa Fañabé, lined with ample numbers of bar-restaurants, upmarket Playa del Duque near a cluster of resort hotels, and the promenade-lined Los Cristianos, offering abundant shopping. Meanwhile, if you’re seeking large, floating structures for kids to bounce on and dive from into a roped-off, small inlet, seek out Playa de las Américas.

No matter the beach, you’ll find restaurants offering a variety of inexpensive food options, including pizza, pasta, steak with béarnaise sauce, fried seafood or fish stew. For afternoon snacks, numerous shops sell ice cream bars, soda or cañas – small glasses of beer. On the sand, mobile vendors sell bottles of water, fruit and the island’s own bananas. Unfortunately, as you’re soaking up the sun, you’ll also be faced with a different type of vendor, touting on-the-beach Thai massages.

3… Dine like a Spaniard.

Tenerife largely draws its visitors from Spain, plus the rest of Europe, including Britain, as evidenced by every other restaurant near the Tenerife hotels or beach in Costa Adeje offering a “full British” breakfast. But to cope with the strong sun - the islands are on the same latitude as the Sahara - and the attendant perils of too many fried breakfasts, consider aping the Spaniards’ food selection and pacing.

Accordingly, after a late night of dining, drinking or clubbing, wake up at 10am, drink a cortado - strong black coffee with a little cream - and head to the beach. Take your first meal at 2pm, then retire for a siesta, using the heavy curtains at your hotel to completely block out the sun. Later, return to the beach, take a stroll or go shopping. Find a bar, sip an aperitif and nibble on tapas. Just don’t eat dinner before 10pm.

If the Spanish approach isn’t to your liking, most restaurants will be happy to serve you after 6pm or so. Though nothing beats a late dinner, sitting in a seaside bistro, hearing the waves surge, enjoying the evening Tenerife weather and watching the sun set while you sip Rioja.

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Euroweekly news report:

MALLORCA is the second best summer destination to find holiday sex, with 35.9 per cent, while Ibiza took first place with 71.3 per cent. The study carried out by a condom company involving 2,000 men and women in Spain aged 18 to 25 reveals a general preference for the islands with Tenerife and the Canary Islands taking third and fourth position for favourite summer sex destinations with 29.7% and 26.7 respectively.

Top of the list also feature Valencia (23.3%), Cadiz (23.3%), Alicante (21.8%) and Cataluña (18%). But hard to get people from Málaga, Cantabria, Murcia and Almeria forced the lowest scores in Spain.

Contrary to popular belief 77.6 per cent of Spaniards admit that they have as much (or as little) sex in the summer months as they do in winter.

Sixty per cent admitted having had sex with someone they met while on holiday. Of these 7.3 per cent – the majority of these men – say they have done this with more than five people.

Almost one in two women claim they have never had holiday sex, while only a third of men concur.

More than a third of Spaniards have had sexual relations on the beach, but 15.2 per cent haven’t for fear of being seen.

Majorca, last year’s number one, is now fourth in the sales list with Florida and Turkey before it.

Other Canary Islands have seen bigger rises in sales, particularly Fuerteventura (250%), Gran Canaria (100%) and Lanzarote (40%).

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The Algarve, Menorca, Shaem el Sheikh, Zakynthos and Mexico are also within the top ten.

“Whilst early booking trends indicated that this summer was all about the Eastern Mediterranean, the improved strength of the Pound against the Euro has resulted in a last minute surge of bookings to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Canary Islands,” said Monarch Travel Group Tour Operations Managing Director Hugh Morgan.

“After the challenges of the past 12 months, confidence has clearly been restored in the market and it’s great to see holiday durations lengthening from last year’s seven and 10 night durations to the traditional 14 night breaks.”

Tourists visiting the Spanish island of Tenerife will soon be able to stay in the world’s first bioclimatic holiday village.

Each of the 25 energy self-sufficient houses has been built to a different design using different technologies and will serve as a living experiment in sustainability.

The houses will double as science laboratories and holiday homes, with sensors constantly feeding back information on their temperature, humidity and air movement to determine which techniques are the most efficient.

The project, developed by Tenerife’s Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables, came about after the region’s president Ricardo Melchior Navarro said more needed to be done to protect the island’s scarce resources.

Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, about 800 miles from mainland Spain and 185 miles from the coast of Africa.

Miren Iriarte, the project’s development manager, told CNN: “We have a lot of tourists coming to our island consuming a lot of energy and water. In an isolated community where we have to generate all our own energy this could be a problem.

“We know that 50 percent of all energy is used in houses, so it’s a big step to create houses which are self-sufficient.”

After 15 years of development and at a cost of €10 million (U.S. $13 million), the houses will finally be ready for rent this winter.

Each of the homes has been designed by a different architect from around the world. The international tender attracted 397 submissions from 38 countries, from which 25 were chosen.

The houses are each designed specifically to suit their particular location, using thickness of walls, orientation to the sun, solar panels, plants, water and wind to control their temperature and generate all their own electricity needs.

Many of the houses are built partly underground to help keep them cool. All the village’s water comes from the sea via its own desalination plant. They are built from materials that are natural, recycled or recyclable.

“The houses are living laboratories,” said Iriarte.

“They have been designed for maximum comfort and we want people to enjoy the experience, but they will also be helping us to test which houses work perfectly and which need improving.

“Eventually these houses can be replicated anywhere that has a hot climate similar to ours.”

The three-bedroom houses will cost between €200 and €280 (U.S. $260 to $365) per night to rent. No conventional cars will be used in the village, but electric cars and bicycles will be available for guests to use.

There is also a visitor’s center in the village to give information on the technology used.

The project took 15 years to complete because of difficulties finding building contractors to construct the complicated and unique designs.

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As the Daily Express report:

HOLIDAY firms are set to slash the price of package deals by hundreds of pounds after a slump in bookings over the summer, experts said yesterday.

A focus on the World Cup and fears over travel disruption have left tour operators with leftover stock.

Discounts on brochure prices are expected to reach up to 70 per cent.

Even families hoping for a break before school starts in September could save as much as 50 per cent on a week in a European destination such as Tenerife.

TUI Travel, owner of Thomson Holidays and First Choice, yesterday revealed a two per cent drop in UK sales over the past three months, normally its busiest time of year.

And it announced the volcanic ash cloud disruption had hit its last-quarter profit by £105million.

Chief executive Peter Long added: “It remains difficult to predict how the later-booking pattern will change over the next 12 to 18 months in the light of the current economic environment.”

A spokeswoman for TUI confirmed there would be “great value deals” during autumn. Among its best was a week on the Greek island of Rhodes in October, starting at £189 per person.

Thomas Cook was also expected to record a drop in sales today.

Long-haul holiday firm Hayes and Jarvis said the downturn in summer sales would mean a “glut” of heavily discounted deals, bringing down the cost of travelling to exotic countries in the Far East to under £500.