Leaders of business organizations from Las Palmas and the south of Gran Canaria have launched this weekend in the presence of the chief advisor of the Ministry of Tourism, Yaiza Castilla, a pressure group to defend that the island's tourism be taken into account. when making decisions in institutions. There are business leaders and company managers, but what is sought is a technically based environment that is a laboratory of ideas. This interest group is part of Corporación 5, an advisory entity for Loro Parque, as well as the partners of Marriot in Tenerife, CIO.
In this way, Excelcan emerges as a non-profit association, formed by the most relevant companies from the entire tourism value chain in the subsectors of air, land, maritime transportation, accommodation, travel agencies and tour operators, means of payment, car rental, tourist hospitals and reservation centers/GDS. By the end of the year, Excelcan will hold the First European Tourist Islands Convention at the end of the year in Gran Canaria to form together a common strategy around projects on green islands and digital islands.
Excelcan is the result of the personal commitment of a very significant group of leaders from the south of Gran Canaria and top managers of the main Gran Canaria tourism companies encouraged by their firm conviction to promote two major objectives-axis of action: Promote greater socio-economic recognition of what tourism contributes and represents as the main sector of the Canarian economy and promote the highest levels of competitiveness that consolidate leadership and profitable and sustainable growth of tourism activity in Gran Canaria, given the growing and important challenges and future opportunities that They are coming.
