Someone with little knowledge in Tenerife has told the hotel management of Las Palmas not to express any opinion about the demonstration on tourismphobia called for April 20. On April 21, the south of Gran Canaria will become a risky vacation destination and, therefore, the profit margin for hoteliers will narrow. And the mobilization agenda is going to contaminate the entire Canary Islands with an aggressive image against tourism, something that in Germany and the United Kingdom the tour operators are going to cut short.
The Las Palmas College of Economists has an opinion on tourismphobia but the business federation does not. Alcibiades Trancho, dean of the power center that brings together economists from Gran Canaria, has said that "each island has a different tourist development" and has put a fact on the table: in the supply of apartments between 2009 and 2023, Tenerife has added 25.193 Maspalomas, Playa del Inglés and San Agustín units have lost 21.166 units. "If the problem is in Tenerife, what is happening in Gran Canaria that does not send a message of normality to the issuing markets?", a representative of a travel agency at Leipzig airport asked this Monday in statements to Maspalomas24H by telephone. /Halle.
At the moment, regarding the Canary Islands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only warns tourists who come to the islands to be "beware of pickpockets and petty crimes in the tourist centers and excursion destinations of the Canary Islands. The Blackout or Informationsausfall of hoteliers Canary Islands has accelerated the hiring of extra beds in other competing markets, sources from the German tourism sector told Maspalomas24H.
The fear that there is in Germany of the mobilizations is in case it is interpreted that there is aggression against tourists, as already happened in 2023 in Tenerife, the island where the problem has arisen and has spread like an oil stain throughout the regional destination. Tourism in the Canary Islands has increased by 55,4% in the last 13 years, with the island of Tenerife leading with an increase of 65,6%, followed by Lanzarote with 64,8% and Gran Canaria with 48%. Fuerteventura ranked third in the relative increase in visitors, with an increase of 57,5%.
