SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 27. (EUROPE PRESS) –
82% of the jobs generated by tourism in the Canary Islands are found in the thirteen destinations that make up the Association of Tourist Municipalities of the Canary Islands (AMTC), as extracted from the first municipal Atlas of the contribution of tourism in Spain, that Exceltur released this week and where an in-depth examination of the accommodation sector is carried out.
This report offers an x-ray of tourism at the national level, concluding that the country’s main economic activity leads the creation of employment by monopolizing large service centers. In the case of the Canary Islands, the report addresses tourism in the 29 municipalities where the activity has more weight. The direct employment figure is 119,127 positions, of which 97,938 are in the thirteen destinations of the AMTC.
These jobs are broken down as follows: San Bartolomé de Tirajana, 21,230; Adeje, 18,570; Arona, 10,838; Mogan, 7,374; Aunts, 5,871; Pajara, 8,683; Yaiza, 6,196; La Oliva, 3,641; Teguise, 3,732; Puerto de la Cruz, 5,433; Ancient, 1830; Santiago del Teide, 1,785; Guide of Isora, 2,800
The Exceltur report stresses “the growing need to manage tourism development locally as well as possible.” Among the main reflections that the document leaves is that it calls for “greater municipal leadership to apply tourism planning and management under new governance schemes and lines of work more aligned with the new challenges of the tourism and global scenario.”
“Coastal destinations justify a higher priority for the State due to the structural and competitive challenges they face and their great relevance in the supply and demand of Spanish tourism”, it stands out.
“The relevance of tourism in Spanish municipalities that this Atlas reflects demands the highest priority attention in many of its policies and municipal governance models, with a more transversal and ambitious vision of the future,” it is pointed out. Among other demands, it calls for “taking advantage of the synergies and economies of scale derived from joint work with other municipalities and/or supra-municipal organizations to obtain greater support.”
Likewise, it is demanded “use of the application of new technologies in the best enhancement of tourist resources, investment in safe public spaces and high quality of life for residents, and promote the greatest social and environmental public-private commitment in the town”.
These are all claims that the AMTC has been making since its creation and, especially, as a result of the zero tourism of 2020, and that now find a referendum in this Exceltur report.
