The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, has highlighted the safety of the Canary Islands and hopes that there will be normality in three or four months.
This was stated in statements to journalists after landing this Wednesday at Gran Canaria Airport on a flight presenting the Canary Islands as a safe destination, in which the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Government of Spain, Reyes Maroto, also traveled.
"We want to give the message to the whole world that the Canary Islands are open, that they are safe and that Spanish and international tourists can come," he said.
He also emphasized that the controls are "good" and that there is no barrier that prevents visitors from visiting the archipelago.
Similarly, he hopes that in three or four months normality can return. "The objective is to give a message that the Canary Islands are a safe and open destination for everyone," he concluded.
Presentation of the Canary Islands as a safe destination
For its part, the initiative to present the archipelago as a safe destination, and which will tour the eight islands, is the result of the collaboration of the Government of the Canary Islands with the UNWTO within the framework of the latter's support in the recovery of tourist destinations in conditions of safety, sustainability and innovation.
The arrival of the flight in which, together with Pololikashvili and Maroto, technicians from the supranational organization, travel agents from Europe, and some forty journalists from national and international media, both travel and general, is the result of this management. En total, it is a delegation of about 180 people.
In addition, the flight will serve to test the security protocols both at the destination and at the origin, which includes conducting voluntary PCR and serological tests on the guests by a medical team before embarking on the trip, in addition to the opportunity to use the Hi+Card application, a tool endorsed by the UNWTO in which the user can save the test result on their mobile phone so that they have it accessible and can show it whenever necessary.
