Apartmenteros of Las Palmas: FEHT implements a sanitary cordon to CC and Cs

The hotel employers of Las Palmas have expressed their discomfort with the Canary Coalition (CC) and Cs for the decision not to support measures that prevent people from living in tourist apartments. PSOE, PP-AV and NC, in addition to CC.OO and UGT, defend the tourist use of planned and built non-hotel complexes against CC proposals to "destroy the principle of unit of exploitation, promote the residentialization of tourist plots and put "economic activity and employment in the most important tourist municipality of the Canary Islands are at risk". The theory of CC and Cs benefits the owners of Las Palmas who have inherited apartments in the south of the island from when they invested in the purchase because they are beneficiary officials of what in democracy they call 'Regime of '78. 

 

 

 

In all of this, it happens that the Cs councilor is the municipal head of Tourism, that is, the local department that defends the interests of the sector. The CC proposal has managed to divide the government group formed by PSOE, NC and Cs. The FEHT has shown its "surprise" at CC's thesis and its "strangeness" at the support for the nationalist formation of Cs. For this reason, the FEHT rules: the abstention of Cs is "particularly incomprehensible and represents a breach in the trust and capacity for dialogue between social agents and public officials, attributable exclusively."

 

 

 

The Canary Islands Vacation Rental Association (ASCAV) has assured that the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam) has commissioned a Madrid law firm to draft a new draft of the Vacation Homes Decree with a "single and covert" objective of "eliminating vacation homes" of the archipelago. According to ASCAV, what is sought is to "concentrate them in the hands of investment funds and large management companies, contributing to the evasion" of capital from the islands and "usurping them from their most basic essence, the small owner who manages his vacation home." and that "contributes to tourism money staying in the Canary Islands." In this regard, he points out that it has been more than "five months since many Canarian town councils contacted ASCAV facilitating this draft Decree as indignant as the Association itself", since these are town councils that "refuse to betray" their neighbors and their affected companies. In this regard, they assure that they have been waiting for this time for the president of Fecam, Mari Brito, to call them, although this "has not occurred, since the new regulation has a clear objective: to prevent small Canarian landowners from benefiting of tourism and concentrating it in the hands of a few.