SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 11 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The spokesman for Tourism of the Popular Group in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Carlos Ester, considered this Friday that the lifting by the Government of Spain of the restrictions on minor tourists “comes late and badly” and asked the counselor, Yaiza Castilla, “the immediate implementation of a promotional plan in the United Kingdom to recover the market and the losses produced”.
Carlos Ester pointed out that the elimination of the requirement to demand the complete vaccination schedule for British minors without any scientific report to support it shows that the measure adopted by the Government of Spain and the Canarian Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, “was more due to political criteria than health criteria”.
In his opinion, it is “one more whim of the Sánchez government that has ruined our winter season and has cost us Canarians dearly with hundreds of thousands of cancellations and millionaire losses for the sector.”
He also criticized the “euphoria with which President Torres has welcomed the measure after months of silence in the face of an unjustified decision by the Ministry of Health that has cost the main Canarian industry losses worth more than 400 million euros.”
According to Ester, “the damage caused to the islands by the delay in adopting this decision demonstrates the lack of capacity of President Torres to defend the interests of the Canary Islands against the whims of Sánchez.”
The popular deputy also demanded that the Government of the Canary Islands not contribute to creating more confusion with its decisions to control the pandemic in the archipelago.
“Bandazos such as the covert relaxation of alert levels, announced yesterday, undermine credibility in Canarian society and also harm our image abroad as a safe destination,” he stressed.
