It was 2015 when the Gran Canaria Tourist Board, businessmen and the LGBT community itself indicated that more than 15% of the island's tourist business was a gay product. That is almost one in every six tourists and one in every six euros billed in the balance of the entire year. And it was April 2022 when the pink Freedom lobby shot itself in the foot by saying without any metric that its Maspalomas Pride week, done without public competition, would generate 150 million euros. Gay tourism should be a matter of the FEHT as a product in IAE format and taken completely out of gender pressure groups.
The pink tourism business affects multiple sectors: from Maspalomas taxi drivers to leisure venues and it is not to be left in the middle of acronym fights between associations controlled by foreigners who have interests in multiple destinations. That is to say: it is a product that should not have interference from non-professional and unstructured groups in Maspalomas. International groups that do not pay a fee to the FEHT to verify their correct promotional behavior should be out of business altogether. Because it has been the madness of the business that has caused the death of gay tourism with monkeypox. Six countries provide more than half of their gay tourists to Gran Canaria: Spain (19%), Germany (14%), the United Kingdom (13%), Sweden (7%) and Denmark (6%).
The Gay Pride of Maspalomas, the massive party that was held between May 5 and 15 and attended by some 80.000 people (Freedom spoke of forecasts of 300.000), has become the second focus of the smallpox outbreak. monkey in Spain and it can be said of Europe, according to El País. The Canary Islands Government's public health services are astonished by the impact. There are already cases in Denmark from Gran Canaria.
It is true that the south of Gran Canaria is only challenged by Ibiza, Sitges or the island of Mykonos (Greece). But it is also true that this market has never been questioned about anything about political correctness. Gran Canaria has been promoting for years in the gay pride parades of several European cities, setting up its own spaces in the LGBT area of the tourist fairs in Madrid and Barcelona or the ITB in Berlin.