This Monday, the vice president of the Cabildo of Tenerife and Minister of Tourism expressed in a radio interview his willingness to establish a fee for visiting the town in 2024. Teide National Park. Lope Afonso (Popular Party) said that a “calm” debate had to be opened, but also “speedily” to be able to implement said rate starting next year. Furthermore, he stated that it would be “difficult” to make an exception for residentsThat is to say, Tenerife residents would also have to pay to access the most precious symbol of the island.
The Tourism Minister of Tenerife, open to charging for access to Teide: it will be difficult to make “exemptions” for residents
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However, hours later, and given the commotion that his words raised, Lope Afonso recanted and stated that implementing a tax was not “on the road map” of the Cabildo, and that what he expressed that same morning was only his “personal opinion.” ”.
An intense debate began on social networks between people in favor of the measure, in order to allocate the funds to the protection of the landscape; those who reject it, especially if it is charged to residents; and those who consider it okay, but charging only tourists.
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