SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 19 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stressed that the future of tourist activity “clearly” depends on “sustainability, competitiveness and continuing to create employment and the economy”, since the latest tourist data reflects that “the model”, in which sustainable, quality and recognized hotels are valued.
This was stated after meeting in the municipality of Adeje (Tenerife) with directors of hotels that are members of Club Sur, with whom he analyzed the situation of this economic sector and its great potential to advance in sustainability.
In the company of the mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, Ángel Víctor Torres spoke with the general director of GF Hoteles, María Victoria López, and with other members of that entity.
Torres highlighted the good tourist data from last month, “one of the best months of March for tourism” in the Canary Islands. He emphasized that, despite the fact that there were fewer visitors to the islands in 2022 than in 2019, a higher expenditure per tourist was recorded and a higher annual figure for that variable.
At the meeting, the head of the regional government addressed the situation of tourist infrastructure, mobility and connectivity, housing and other basic facilities, such as the Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía airport. In addition, he recalled the “big bump” that the sector has overcome due to the pandemic, zero tourism and the closure of companies, “with a year 2020 that was tremendous and with various waves of covid-19 also in 2021”.
Torres insisted that 2022 “ended very well and we continue to do well in the first months of 2023, breaking records in job creation and with more people working than ever in the Canary Islands, something that should make us all happy”.
For her part, María Victoria López, although she was pleased that the figures for the sector “are good”, indicated that everything possible must be done to continue in this line in a “very competitive market, transmitting all our requests to the people who They will decide the future.”
The mayor of Adeje stressed the importance of these meetings to analyze the situation of the tourism sector on the islands and in this southern region of Tenerife, where “it is working well, but to which we must guarantee its continuity and sustainability over time, to continue being competitive and have the best profitability indexes, because this is our main factor in generating wealth and then being able to distribute it,” he added.
