The company Tropical Turística Canaria, winner of the public tender called in 2019 by the Cabildo de Tenerife to rehabilitate the Hotel Taoro, will restart work this month after the extension requested during the pandemic. Although the schedule presented contemplated that will start at the end of 2022, the idea is that they resume this month “if no complications arise,” clarified the island president, Pedro Martín, when asked about this project. “I usually announce these types of things a week before, when everything is resolved. We have been working intensely in the last two years. The pandemic caused it to stop, but it is picking up momentum again, ”he declared.
“The company has told me that its forecast is to be able to start in September if there are no problems and right now there is no element or change of opinion that will paralyze it. The objective is that before the end of the year work would be seen in the Taoro”, he maintained.
The island president was even glad that the start of this action “is helping other hotels that are in the area have decided to renovate, invest and even acquire. That is great news for the city, but also for the Island.”
For Pedro Martín, “it is a challenge, also on a personal level, that the work begins before the end of the year, because it is essential to recover the tourist identity of Tenerife and Puerto de la Cruz, that pioneering place of tourism on the Island that has a benchmark that was the Hotel Taoro”.
According to the president, the pandemic break was taken advantage of to make some modifications, such as an ordinance to allow the uses that are to be made in the place and that required the exchange of two plots, one of insular property and the other municipal, “complex issues from the administrative point of view”, he clarified.
In this sense, the mayor, Marco González, explained that the City Council has shared with the property an opportunity for it to discover the city and for the project to adapt to the identity of Puerto de la Cruz.
The municipal councilor confirmed that the company has also requested the possibility of managing the Taoro Congress Center. “We believe that it is an important opportunity for the hotel because it has been an underutilized property and now that we are launching initiatives such as Veranos del Taoro, the entire business sector can understand that a company that is going to manage such an important hotel also wants to do it with the center to have a cultural program”.
González stressed that Tropical Turística Canaria “is very clear about the model towards which the city wants to move, so it is not only going to do the work and start up the hotel, but also a whole commitment by the city to leave the past behind and that this serves to be at the forefront again in the future”.
