Before getting into the matter, the data: the occupancy of the places offered for the month of May 2024 in San Bartolomé de Tirajana reached 70,09%. Compared to the same period last year, there was a change of 4,32 basis points in relation to occupied positions. In the month of April 2024, the number of people working in hotel establishments in the south of Gran Canaria reached 9.711. A new fact: the hotel management of Las Palmas has called the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (Tides) of the ULPGC "independent" when it is directed by a former deputy minister of Tourism from the time of the flower pact (PSOE, NC and we can).
Compared to the previous year it has changed by 648 people. The estimated number of hotel beds per 1.000 inhabitants in San Bartolomé de Tirajana is 810,6. In the month of May 2024, it is estimated that 70 hotels are open in San Bartolomé de Tirajana. In the municipality the number of places offered was 42.910. As for last year, this figure has changed by 341 places.
The businessmen of the tourism sector of Las Palmas (FEHT) have lost control of the market unit in the south of Gran Canaria this June because CC has fulfilled its electoral agenda: amnesty for apartment owners in the tourist area and that They have turned them into residential plazas. That is to say: as if the director of El Corte Inglés in Las Palmas lived on the second floor, which is the men's floor. The hotel sector must submit to the agreement of the board of directors the beginning of a judicial career that will not go anywhere because as an administration of the State, which is the City Council, a process of this type can last centuries.
The measure was planned in the government program of AV (PP) and the Canarian Coalition due to the loneliness of the managers of establishments in the south of the island. There's nothing to do. The tourism employers' association has recalled that "independent" academic studies, prepared by the Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (Tides), have estimated the loss of income in economic activity caused by the process of allowing tourist complexes in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana have registered voters.
In the midst of this process, hoteliers have continued to fatten their accounts. On average, tourists spent a total of 2023 nights per person in hotels in San Bartolomé de Tirajana in August 7,07, according to the Hotel Occupancy Survey of the National Institute of Statistics. Faced with this increase, the city councils of the main tourist cities in Spain have already taken action. The Madrid council has presented the draft of a new regulation for tourist homes. In Barcelona, it has already requested the withdrawal of 4.077 ads for illegal tourist apartments on the Airbnb platform. In the Valencian Community, a new Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Law has been approved that contemplates the possibility that municipalities can develop their own tourism resource management plans (PORT), allowing intervention plans to be developed in the region to delimit areas. saturated tourist attractions. In Palma de Mallorca they have chosen to prohibit all types of tourist rentals in the saturated tourist coastal areas and in s'Arenal de Llucmajor.
