The mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, yesterday requested a change to the state law on tourist municipalities so that the capital “does not continue to be excluded from receiving investments for infrastructure based on the number of tourist beds available.”
In the opinion of the councilor, “the city receives half a million cruise passengers a year, floating hotels in our Port that are a guarantee that we deserve to be a tourist municipality, in addition to being the second most visited excursion, after Teide, by tourists. It is an obsolete law and it must be modified so that the city benefits,” he noted.
Bermúdez made these statements during the second day of the 1st MOV Canary Islands Sustainable Mobility and Connectivity Forum, a debate in which the presidents of the Port Authorities of both provinces also participated, Pedro Suárez on behalf of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Beatriz Calzada on behalf of the province of Las Palmas, and Airam Díaz, vice president of the Canarian Federation of Port Companies (Fedeport).
During the meeting, under the title Port and City: Challenges and Opportunities, the guests highlighted the importance of Port-City collaboration and, in this sense, the mayor recalled that “we have to move forward with the large entrance and exit building to the port. to the city, with an investment of 70 million that must be faced between the Government of Spain, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo, the Port Authority and the City Council.”
