The demonstrations that tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Canary Islands on Saturday, April 20, against a model of mass tourism that, they say, is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago, have generated two winning interlocutors: the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Canaria, which has recovered the leadership ceded for decades to take action and Excelcan, the laboratory of ideas similar to the one in Madrid with Exceltur, and chaired by Santiago de Armas. The 20A, with the debate generated, is going to turn into a graveyard of acronyms entities that have not known how to communicate correctly with society and also with technicians.
The protests, which the BBC has noted were "qualified by the Spanish press as historic," previously had Exclecan and the Gran Canaria Chamber of Commerce give their opinions, which were able to reach the media and social networks in the midst of the debate. That is to say: they defended their ideas without anyone being stoned. It should be noted that among some business entities, an increase in the IGIC was even proposed to put a stop to an eco-tax.
The president of the Chamber in Las Palmas, Luis Padrón, put his finger in the eye last week with the ecotax and has not shied away from the debate by clearly saying that why do environmentalists want an ecotax, a thesis that has been joined by a Canarian PSOE without a leader in the territory because he is a minister in Madrid, if the Government of the Canary Islands is unable to execute 100% of the European funds for the reconversion of the tourist destination in favor of sustainability.
The Chamber of Gran Canaria and Excelcan have signed an agreement for the periodic preparation of tourism situation reports that will analyze "in detail the key aspects" that influence the tourism sector of the islands and that directly impact the economy and development of the region and with this they intend to demonstrate that it is wrong to want to limit the number of tourists and stop what environmentalists describe as uncontrolled tourist development that is harmful to the environment and residents.
