The Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism closed 2025 with an operating result of 15.2 million euros and an audited net profit of 1.9 million euros, despite registering a slight decrease of 0.3% in the number of visitors.
The spaces created by César Manrique received 2,956,406 visitors in 2025 compared to 2,967,397 in 2024. These results consolidate the strategy promoted during the current legislature based on generating more income, more profits, and well-being for Lanzarote through more efficient and responsible management of resources.
The counselor of the Entity, Ángel Vázquez, announced today that the business volume rose to 52.5 million euros. “That is the path we have set for ourselves, the objective of our strategy,” stated Vázquez, who pointed to “the updating of fees, the new calculation of royalties; the control of current expenses, the work and enthusiasm of the employees, and the responsible management of technical and human resources” as the “great pillars on which a management model is based that has allowed us to increase our contribution to the well-being of the island's population and, simultaneously, reduce the pressure of the human footprint on Manrique's work.”
Generating well-being for Lanzarote
Regarding the redistribution of profits generated from the Entity's tourism activity, Vázquez pointed out that 7,560,405.51 euros were accrued to the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the town councils of Haría, Yaiza, and Tinajo in royalties during 2025.
The municipalities were accrued 5,593,695.65 euros, 138.2% more than in 2022. By municipality, Haría received 2.8 million euros, compared to 1.2 million euros in 2022, Yaiza 729,197.86 euros (365,652.93 in 2022), and Tinajo 1.9 million euros, compared to just over 726 thousand euros in 2022.
To the Cabildo of Lanzarote, on the other hand, 1,966,709.86 euros were accrued for this concept, 96.6% more than in 2024.
In this same economic-financial area, Vázquez announced that the Entity will allocate a total of 786,271.65 euros to the Capitalization Reserve corresponding to 15% of the difference in equity at the end and beginning of the 2025 fiscal year.
Likewise, he explained that the Entity has gone from paying 1.1 million euros in Corporate Tax in 2022 to receiving a tax credit of 337,214.44 euros in 2025. “We have been able to pay two million euros to the First Island Institution in fees and obtain a tax bonus thanks to daily management and adequate planning,” he stated.
Vázquez also highlighted the qualitative and quantitative leap experienced in the Procurement procedures: "During the past year, 73 tender files were processed," explained the counselor, who stressed that during the first six months of 2026, 83 have already been processed, compared to the single tender that had been carried out in the first six months of 2023, the last ones of the previous management of the Entity. This is management and transparency.”
Likewise, he indicated that during 2025, FDCAN funds amounting to two million nine hundred and forty thousand euros had been justified for the execution of the “EPEL-CACT Programs included in the Lanzarote 2016-2025 Strategy”.
Regarding human resources, Vázquez pointed out that the Entity has managed to reduce its dependence on temporary employment agencies by “approximately 25%” since the last fiscal year “by consolidating several selection processes.”
In the same area, he reported that the base of the productivity bonus fund, which is calculated on profit before taxes, “will be 1.6 million, given that we had to pay almost one million euros to face personnel expenses derived from the judicialization of various selection processes.”
Corporate Social Responsibility
Vázquez valued the consolidation of one of the "great successes" of the current legislature, "the creation of the Corporate Social Responsibility department," which aims to reinforce the commitment of the Tourist Centers with the well-being of the population of Lanzarote and the conservation of the natural environment by making projects of social, sports, educational, and cultural interest a reality. "It helps us to build the island by returning to society a part of what the tourism industry generates," he explained.
Thus, Vázquez announced that during 2025 "138 projects developed by entities from the social, sports, and cultural fabric of Lanzarote and La Graciosa were financed, amounting to 4.74 million euros, which represented a total impact of 17.23 million euros on the archipelago's production chain."
He also announced, also, the results of the 2026 Corporate Social Responsibility call, marked by a profound reorganization aimed at expanding the scope of aid and reinforcing its social impact. Vaźquez announced that in 2026, 239 initiatives will be promoted compared to the 138 supported last year with an investment of 2.1 million euros.
Other milestones highlighted by the counselor were the initiation of the process for the installation of air conditioning in the Montañas del Fuego, "a circumstance that opens the door to a new management model for the center," and the tender for the implementation of the Dynamic Purchasing System for suppliers. "But, above all," he stressed, "the work we have done to generate a new awareness about the importance of caring for these jewels that are everyone's heritage."
In addition, he cited the consolidation of the restoration proposal and the commitment to the conservation of the centers through the new Conservation Plan.
The provisional results for the first five months of 2026 indicate the consolidation of this trend, with an estimated profit of 2,026,671.65 euros and the continuity of a model aimed at generating more resources for Lanzarote with less pressure on its tourist spaces.