“It saddens me to see how we generate controversies where there are none”, commented the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, in an interview with Radio Lanzarote, about the fact that the President of the Cabildo has had to clarify something she had not said about British tourism. A clarification requested, among others, by the Tourist Federation of the island.
“I listened to her statements and the president did not say that she does not want English tourists to come, I don't know where that came from. What the president has said, and I share a part, is that there is tourist saturation, not of tourists on the beaches, but of the maximum that the island can support with the infrastructure it has.”
“And we have been working on this at the Chamber of Commerce among everyone. An important part of the business sector wants to modernize our tourism, which does not mean continuing to grow in number of beds, although some more beds will fall, but trying to ensure that, with what we already have, we have a growth in turnover”, he clarifies.
"What economic sector, having qualities and capacity, is not going to try to bill more for what it offers?"
To have a tourism of excellence and increase tourism revenue, Valle advocates working on “offering experiences, enhancing all complementary services and trying to capture other niches”. The president of the Chamber of Commerce asks himself: “What economic sector, having the qualities and capacity, is not going to try to bill more for what it offers? Those are the rules of the market.”
"And if we want mass tourism, of volume, then we prepare ourselves and we all say it. We sit down and do it, but it saddened me when I was in Morocco with a group of businessmen trying to get Lanzarote to play the game, that there is another group saying why we don't want English people, something that no actor on the island has said, and seeing the CEO of a company asking the highest institution on the island for explanations for publications in the press."
“I think we should all be a little more respectful. I may agree with the president on some things and not on others, but what I do believe is that defending our island and defending our institutions, that has to be above political games and business games.”
