Clavijo sees symptoms of “maturity and cooling” in the tourism sector, which must adapt

 The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, affirmed this Tuesday that the archipelago's tourism sector is beginning to show “symptoms of maturity and cooling” after several years of continuous growth, and stressed that the challenge now is to adapt to new times the tourism model.

During the debate on the state of the nationality in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Clavijo recalled that the archipelago closed 2025 with record figures, with 18.5 million tourists and a volume of turnover of 24,431 million euros, but warned that “it is impossible to grow without limits”.

Given this situation, the president has defended his Government's management, with the promotion of several regulatory reforms to adapt the sector to new challenges, such as the regulation of holiday rentals, a tourism modality that must be present, he said, "but that needed a framework of legal certainty".

Clavijo has acknowledged that the drafting of this regulation has been complex and has generated debate, but has insisted that the Canary Islands, as a leading tourist destination, must regulate this activity to make it compatible with the rest of the tourism model and with coexistence in cities.

The head of the Executive also stressed the importance of the wealth generated by tourism reaching Canarian families and celebrated the signing of the sector's collective agreements in both provinces, "with double-digit salary increases" as a result of social dialogue between employers and unions "with government mediation but no intervention".

In addition, Clavijo pointed out that the Government is working on a new tourism law that will replace the current regulations, in force since the mid-nineties, with the aim of adapting the sector to current and future challenges.

The future regulation, whose drafting process began in 2025 with a prior public consultation, aims to update the legal framework of tourism in the archipelago from a sustainable and participatory perspective, for which a dialogue process has been initiated with island councils, city councils and social agents, as well as with the public universities of the Canary Islands.

That law will address, he added, the quality of tourism employment, the regulation of accommodation supply, the control of tourist activity, territorial planning or the sustainability of the model.