"We will have to ask that the AIEM be removed because it is no longer just a matter of the hotel sector, now it is also a matter of vacation homes, let's see if we are going to have the support of Airbnb in Brussels," This is how a leader reacted this Sunday in a joking tone. business of the Las Palmas hotel business upon learning that Hiperdino, Asinca and the vacation home lobby group Ascav, which replicates on the islands the requests of digital companies such as Airbnb and Booking.com In addition to real estate, they will place 'Made in the Canary Islands' products in the houses that, in the opinion of the hotel sector, break the market unity in the south of Gran Canaria.
There are hotel chains such as Vivvo (Grupo Martinón) or Cordial Hotels that are based in their capital by Asinca partners such as the owners of Kalise or Pastas La Isleña, promoters in their time with JSP (MIllac) of a tariff that affects the import of key products for the tourism sector: from basic necessities for Canarian families with fewer resources to juice pulp, bulk drinks for cocktails to mattresses, pillows, upholstered bases, bed bases, which increase the prices of hotel renovations. The owners of Hiperdino have the HD San Miguel complex in the south of Gran Canaria in addition to participations and agreements with Barceló in Lanzarote.
The Canarian industrial employers' association has followed the thesis of the message from Sara Rodríguez, Director of Public Policies and Campaign at Airbnb, when in May she asked the authorities in the Canary Islands "to put local people first and allow them to benefit from tourism in the areas." to which they belong and avoid policies that continue to favor the dominance of hotels. Ascav's agreement with HiperDino Supermercados and Asinca is to promote the consumption of Canarian products and that "the primary and industrial sector of the archipelago benefit directly from tourism, as well as promote the consumption of local products among tourists." The primary industrial sector in Asinca is Leche Valsequillo or Jucarne, among other brands.
Fernando del Castillo, president of the CIT of Gran Canaria, said last May in Canarias 7 that "ill-founded catastrophic attitudes contribute to designing a mediocre, regressive law against progress and economic activity, a fearful law full of threats of stop and paralyze everything, with a convoluted article that reduces legal security, discourages investment and the illusion of growth. A few weeks ago, Fernando Estany, president of the non-hoteliers of Las Palmas in the FEHT, said "what the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council establishes to allow mixed use on the same plot is not in accordance with the higher law and may be appealed." , and that "the non-hotel sector may disappear."