The central government (PSOE and Sumar) is finalizing a regulatory change that will force companies in the hotel and non-hotel accommodation sector— it's unclear whether this will also include holiday rentals—to install lifts in a total of 103.597 beds in Maspalomas, Playa del Inglés, San Agustín, and Meloneras, and 43.956 beds in Mogán. In the Balearic Islands, where the PP and the right-wing Vox govern, a catalog of lift beds for tourism, inherited from the PSOE in 2022, is already in place. The PP in the Canary Islands is considered left-wing, as evidenced by its intervention in the holiday rental market without infringing on municipal powers, and it is assumed that it will not reject the socialist plan originating in Madrid, which will likely have the support of Nueva Canarias.
Nor is it about changing all the beds in the tourist establishments in the south of Gran Canaria, but rather the incorporation of elevation measures and their implementation will be associated with European funds, although it is not known what will happen to the AIEM for bed bases and mattresses that have this type of products. The Balearic Islands (PP and Vox) have approved 15 million euros to subsidize the purchase of bed lifting mechanisms in tourist accommodation establishments; but it is an apparently very small figure.
La Las Palmas employers' association is a signatory of the 2030 Agenda and has received funds to promote "decent work for sustainable development", such as Goal 8 which aims to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all". Under article 8 of the 2030 Agenda, with which employers have received subsidies to implement it, business organizations have no choice but to comply to "move towards a more sustainable tourism model", in the verbiage used by PSOE and Sumar. .
The new business of bed sellers will be 60% concentrated in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, in the south of Gran Canaria, where there are almost 2 tourist places per registered inhabitant. The list of the main hotel owners is headed by the HIP Hotel Investment Partners fund of the Blackstone group, with 7.273 beds and 10 complexes. It is followed by RIU Hotels, with 8 complexes and 6.403 beds, and Lopesan in third place, with 4 establishments (Meloneras and exIFA Faro Maspalomas) and 6.324 beds.
A Mutua Universal study assures that hotel maids would reduce the energy of the lumbar load they use when making beds by 30 percent, if lifting systems at 90 centimeters were implemented. It is one of the conclusions drawn from 'Ergonomics study: Making the bed without elevation' by Meliá Hoteles and Mutua Universal and that has made various measurements of what it would mean to introduce this type of improvement in the health of these workers. The report prepared by the Coordinator of the Mutua Universal Ergonomics Laboratory, Ana Elvira Planas, has highlighted that its results are the result of the evolution of "20 years of work" but has pointed out that this is only one of the "demanding tasks " that the 'kellys' do when cleaning a room.
El study has measured the way in which 16 muscle groups of the lower back and upper extremities of a housekeeper worked, without previous pathologies, by making a 'king size' bed located at different heights. The first located at 60 cm (the common height of beds without elevation) and others raised at 90 cm, 100 cm and 105 cm, with different elevation systems. "The 60 cm beds use the most lumbar energy and the 90 cm beds the least, 30%, which are more advantageous than the 100 cm and 105 cm beds," Planas highlighted.
