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Mondial Tourisme Expands Mondi Club in the Canary Islands and Targets Egypt for Winter 2026–2027

September 19, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

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The new Winter 2026-2027 brochure from Mondial Tourisme is now being distributed to travel agencies and is available online.

For this new season, the tour operator continues to develop its in-house clubs while expanding its long-haul offerings and the options for departures from the provinces.

But before addressing the winter schedule, Mondial Tourisme also draws a few lessons from the summer of 2026.

While Tunisia and the Canary Islands stood out as some of the best-performing destinations, the summer period was mainly characterized by a shift in customer behavior.

According to Laure Chevrinais, head of communications at Mondial Tourisme, the traditional July-August peak is losing ground to the shoulder seasons. “We are increasingly realizing that July-August is no longer the peak season as we used to know it“, she explains.

The summer of 2026 was also marked by geopolitical tensions and concerns about air travel.

Announcements about possible fuel supply difficulties or flight disruptions may have contributed to delaying decision-making. Some customers reportedly favored waiting to book later, pushing more bookings to the last minute.

Three New Mondi Clubs in the Canaries

For the winter, one of the main development axes focuses on the Canaries. Mondial Tourisme unveils three new Mondi Clubs, bringing the brand’s total number of properties on the archipelago to seven.

In Lanzarote, the operator offers notably the Mondi Club Galeon Playa 3*, labeled Relax and available on a half-board basis, as well as the Mondi Club Beatriz Playa & Spa 4*, in all-inclusive format. In Tenerife, the Mondi Club Grand Muthu Golf Plaza 4* completes this new lineup.

This expansion follows a logic of growth in a destination capable of operating beyond the mere summer season.

“The Canary Islands are indeed a destination that works year-round, both in summer and in winter. That’s why we want to strengthen a little more in this destination“, emphasizes Laure Chevrinais.

With these new addresses, Mondial Tourisme aims to consolidate a destination already well established in its portfolio and to offer more choices to agencies and clients.

Tunisia Remains the Operator’s Leading Destination

Tunisia remains the Mondial Tourisme’s main market. The tour operator claims more than 100,000 passengers per year to the destination, which is one of its historical focal points.

For the winter 2026-2027, the operator notably expands its lineup with the Welcome Meridiana 4* in Djerba. Already present in Mondial Tourisme’s programming, the property is now part of the Mondi Club range after several renovations.

The destination also benefits from a positioning particularly suited to the winter season, with a long-stay offer allowing travelers to chase sunshine a few hours from France.

Egypt Aims to Confirm Its Restart

Another market under close watch for the upcoming season is Egypt. Mondial Tourisme broadens its program with a new seven-night package titled “Treasures of the Nile to the Pyramids of Cairo“.

The product combines Cairo sightseeing and a Nile cruise, in a shorter format than the nine-night package “From the Pyramids to the Red Sea” that is offered elsewhere. The stay is marketed from €1,289 per week.

For Mondial Tourisme, Egypt had been one of the destinations showing signs of recovery before the recent slowdown linked to geopolitical context.

“Before the conflict, it was really a destination that was rebounding very well. There was a small pause, but we hope it will start up again“, says Laure Chevrinais.

The choice of a new seven-night format should particularly help meet clients looking to combine several experiences without devoting too long to the trip.

Lapland: Regional Departures Reconfirmed

The Lapland is also among Mondial Tourisme’s bets for the winter.

Building on the success of the previous season, the operator is renewing departures to Finnish and Swedish Lapland from several French cities. Flights are scheduled from Deauville, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Marseille, in addition to Paris.

The Mondi Club Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland remains at the heart of the program, with stays that incorporate the main Arctic experiences: dogsledding, snowmobiling, meeting reindeer, ice fishing, and the aurora borealis.

This regional departure strategy already appears to be paying off. “We can already see that it’s working very well“, confirms Laure Chevrinais.

La Gomera: Spectacular Roques Hike in the Canary Islands’ Volcanic Heartland

June 21, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

La Gomera : randonnée spectaculaire des Roques au cœur de l’île volcanique des Canaries - Photo JFR

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A hands-on geography lesson and a major physical exercise. It is by paying with one’s body that one will best enjoy one of the most impressive mountainous landscapes of La Gomera: The Roques, four volcanic spires rising above semi-arid slopes dotted with shrubs and conifers.

In almost 6 hours of walking, this looped itinerary begins and ends at La Laja, fifteen kilometers from San Sebastián, the main town of La Gomera.

Randonnée : la Laja, hameau niché dans un ravin

Beyond the last houses of this hamlet perched in a ravine, the path climbs steeply into the terrain toward the El Bailadero viewpoint.

Rapidement, la nature volcanique du terrain s’impose. Quelques dizaines de mètres plus loin se dresse, à droite du chemin, un haut mur naturel de pierre brun rouille.

Dans le langage local, on l’appelle un taparucha, une petite colonne de remontée de magma solidifiée et dégagée par l’érosion.

Filons verticaux et paysages volcaniques

Geologically, this is a dyke. Some have detached from the substrate, like this one. Others are enclosed in the rocks and form vertical veins, “rayant” the landscape.

As the trail climbs — one sometimes has to orient oneself by the cairns, small piles of stones marking the route — the view opens onto the first roque.

This is a bullet-shaped, conical rock; it is Ojila. Perched at 1,171 meters above sea level, it is made of trachybasalt. A remnant of the island’s ancient activity as well, two million years ago, this sugarloaf is in fact an old and wide eruption chimney eroded by the wear of the softer rocks that surrounded it.

La Gomera : repos bienvenue à El Bailadero

This hike confirms the volcanic origin of La Gomera. The peaks and slopes were subsequently shaped by water erosion and covered with vegetation that varies according to exposure to winds and sun. After 2 hours and nearly 500 meters of cumulative ascent, fatigue begins to set in.

Into a silence barely disturbed by the ringing of sheep bells rising from the valley floor, the El Bailadero viewpoint, at an altitude of 1,050 m, offers a welcome rest.

All visible to the south, the four roques undoubtedly constitute one of the most beautiful viewpoints of the hike: Ojila, Agando, La Zarcita and Carmona stand out against the azure sky.

Vue sur le Teide, point culminant de l’Espagne

What follows is a fairly long trek through the humid forest before reaching the summit of the hike, at nearly 1,250 meters above sea level. The Teide peak, towering over the neighboring island of Tenerife, looms on the horizon. This active volcano, perched at 3,715 meters, serves as the backdrop to multiple panoramas of La Gomera. It is the highest point in Spain.

After another pause at the belvedere of the roque d’Agando, the highest of the four (1,251 meters above sea level), the route descends into the La Laja valley, a quick plunge into a forest of Canary pines that leaves behind the four most famous sugarloaf peaks of La Gomera.

La Gomera: Humid Forest, a Natural Jewel of the Canary Islands

June 20, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

The Laurel Forest of La Gomera, a Unique Canary Islands Ecosystem

La Gomera : dans la forêt humide, joyau naturel des Canaries ! - Photo JFR

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The laurisilva, or laurel forest.

This is the scientifically sounding name used to describe this type of forest, almost permanently drenched by the dense haze arising from the clouds that rise along La Gomera’s slopes.

Spread between 800 m and 1,487 m in altitude, the island’s highest point, this forest is largely included in the Garajonay National Park, created in 1981 to protect this sensitive ecosystem.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve at the Heart of La Gomera

UNESCO also listed it on the World Heritage List in 1986 before designating it as a biosphere reserve in 2012.

If it stands out against the island’s otherwise dry scenery, that’s because this grove thrives under the influence of the winds, particularly under the trade-wind regime.

Coming from the northeast, they drive clouds loaded with water vapor toward the summit slopes.

They then shed their water droplets onto the trees and shrubs, forming a humid subtropical undergrowth of incomparable plant wealth.

A Three-Hour Hike Through Garajonay’s Humid Forest

In order to observe the phenomenon up close, head to el monte, the name locals of La Gomera give to this high-altitude forest.

From the island’s west and the village of Arure, a nearly 3-hour hiking route forms a loop and starts at the hamlet of Acardece.

As you rise through the different levels of the laurisilva, the opening stretch of the route, facing south, reveals a beautiful scrub vegetation, blending heathers and various shrubs.

Primary Forest Landscapes Shaped by the Trade Winds

At the entrance to Garajonay National Park, the landscape changes radically.

The path suddenly plunges into a dense forest formed by arborescent heathers, holly, laurels, and nearly twenty other tree species.

Initially dry in appearance, it becomes more humid as you ascend along the route, gradually leaving behind the southern influence to face winds coming from the north.

Mosses, Ferns and Lichens: a Tolkien-esque Atmosphere

At the place called Raso de la Bruma, the trail crosses a road and leans distinctly toward the north. A new atmosphere!

The twisted trunks and the branches of heathers, some specimens reaching up to 20 meters tall—a sort of world record—are wrapped in moist mosses and lichens.

Mixed with fern-covered soils, this emerald fuzz creates a Tolkien-like landscape, in a surprisingly cool freshness.