The business community in the south of Gran Canaria unanimously expressed its pain this weekend over the unexpected death of the island's tourist hero Alfonso Villarrubia, owner of complexes that have generated hundreds of stable jobs directly and indirectly for families who depend on of the Faisán apartment complexes in Playa del Inglés as well as Colinamar and Mozart in Mogán. A message of solidarity with the Villarrubia Posada family that was also unanimous among workers and clients on social networks.
Back in 1992 Villarrubia launched new businesses in the south of Gran Canaria after many years of accumulated knowledge in the south of the island. From a Sonneland office he created Eleraq for the tourist exploitation of apartments on the island of Gran Canaria. A family business with his wife Olga Posada Perez and daughters Elena Villarrubia Posada and Raquel Villarrubia Posada. "In that process he was always supported by the family and businessmen here," a social agent from the south of the island recalled this weekend.
The leader of the non-hotel businessmen of the south of Gran Canaria, Tom Smulders, has expressed his condolences for the death of Alfonso Villarrubia, highlighting that he was "an example for all of us" and that "his sense of duty, his commitment and a lifetime dedicated to service "of the quality of tourism that will remain "as a solid and valuable legacy for future generations.
The non-hotel business association of the FEHT of Las Palmas has sent a message of condolences to the family and workers of Faisán, Colinamar and Mozart where the "deepest condolences" of the business sector in the south of Gran Canaria are expressed. Alfonso Villarrubia, Smulders said, "has undoubtedly witnessed, written and shaped many of the most relevant chapters in the history of our tourism in recent decades," he said.
The non-hoteliers of the FEHT of Las Palmas highlight that Villarrubia "always fulfilled his sense of duty, commitment and a lifetime dedicated to serving tourism, an example for all of us and will remain a solid and valuable legacy for future generations." "Alfonso Villarrubia will always be in our hearts and thoughts, we will miss him very much."
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