SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro (COA) commemorates the ‘World Urbanism Day’ on November 8 with the organization of a table-debate to address ‘The coming tourism’, a topic that will be from a territorial and urban perspective.
The tourist areas of the coast of the Canary Islands are complex spaces that require a rethinking from the perspective of sustainability and climate change, they underline from the College.
Thus, tourism activity faces the challenge of reducing its high climatic and ecological footprint, in addition to responding to the demands of a new tourist profile.
Faced with this new panorama, the sector has to pose new challenges towards a transformation in search of a more sustainable model, which is in line with the principles of the World Tourism Organization, which advocates its development from standards of responsibility promoting it as driving force of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability.
From this perspective, and in order to reflect on it, experts such as Argeo Semán, architect and urban planner, dean of the Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro, David Padrón, general director of Research and Coordination of Sustainable Development of the Government of the Canary Islands, Bachelor of Economics and Business Sciences from the University of La Laguna and who currently works as a professor of Applied Economics; Luis Falcón, architect and urban planner from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and currently professor of urban policies and data in the City & Technology Master, at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / UPC (2002-2022); Moisés Simancas Cruz, professor of Human Geography at the University of La Laguna and coordinator of the research group ReinvenTUR: Tourism Renewal Observatory, member of the Scientific Council of the La Gomera Biosphere Reserve and deputy director of the CajaCanarias Tourism Chair- Ashotel-University of La Laguna; Águeda Borgues, Law graduate from Comillas Pontifical University ICADE and vice-president of the FEHT; Juan Palop Casado, architect and urban planner, founder and director of the company LPA Studio specialized in planning, urban design, infrastructure and landscaping projects; Flora Pescador Monagas, Doctor of Architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC; Carmen Inés Ruíz de La Rosa, holds a degree in Economic and Business Sciences and a PhD in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of La Laguna and a Master’s degree in Science, Technology and Water Management from the University of Salamanca.
