The ambassador of the United Kingdom in Spain ratified yesterday in Adeje the good tourist expectations of Tenerife and the Archipelago with its main visitor market.
“There is a desire to return to the Canary Islands after such complex times due to the pandemic and Brexit”, said Hugh Elliot, who underlined the need to “be flexible” to adapt to the “new challenges” presented by the changing scenario of the pandemic after of six waves of COVID-19, which have drawn, in his opinion, a “difficult” scenario for both tourists and British residents on the Islands.
After thanking the mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, and the island authorities for the support provided to his compatriots during the transition to Brexit and the health crisis, Elliot described as “good news” the relaxation of the measures that affected the entry of minors to the Archipelago, for which the complete vaccination schedule will no longer be necessary, but rather a negative PCR test. Minutes later, during the Brexit and the future of tourism forum, the ambassador assured that the Canary Islands “continue to be the favorite destination” of the British.
“We want to go back,” he said. Elliot recalled that, before the pandemic, “five million British people chose the Canary Islands as a tourist destination to enjoy their holidays and we hope to return to those figures as soon as possible; I think we will achieve it, because in 2021 the Islands were once again the Spanish destination most in demand by the British”.
Dialogue
For his part, Rodríguez Fraga pointed out that in the southern municipality there is a “long tradition” of British tourists and residents -3,200 people of this nationality live in the municipality of Adeje- and was in favor of “opening up avenues of work” through meetings like yesterday’s, where “a system of dialogue and communication is fostered that allows us to offer the best both from a tourist and residential point of view”.
Regarding the tourist forecasts, Rodríguez Fraga commented that they are “very good”, because “there is less uncertainty due to the pandemic” and the situation is beginning to “normalize”, for which he trusts in “entering an irreversible stage” of recovery of the sightseeing.
The Adeje City Council reported yesterday that the British market accounted for, until before the pandemic, 45.4% of the Costa Adeje market share.
