The Plenary Session of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has approved this Thursday the agreements with the Ministry of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands to draft the Third Modernization Plan, Improvement and Competitiveness Increase of Costa Teguise (Teguise) and the Modernization Plan of Playa Blanca (Yaiza).
The first institution has reported that the documents have all favorable technical reports and contemplate a total investment of 600,000 euros, financed entirely by the Cabildo.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, stressed that the approval of these agreements marks a turning point in the island's tourism policy. "With these modernization plans for Costa Teguise and Playa Blanca, we are taking a decisive step to requalify our destination, improve public spaces, modernize accommodation facilities, and ensure that we remain competitive in an increasingly demanding global tourism market," Betancort highlighted.
The president insisted that this is a clear commitment to quality over quantity and stated that "these plans are a strategic tool to link the recovery and renovation of mature areas with environmental sustainability and the quality of life of the residents".
For his part, the Minister of Territorial Planning and Territorial Policy, Jesús Machín, emphasized the technical and strategic nature of these instruments, recalling that "modernization plans are the tool that allows us to better order growth, curb the degradation of mature tourist areas, while at the same time generating more urban quality, more green spaces, better public facilities and services."
Machín recalled that both the Third Modernization Plan for Costa Teguise and the Modernization Plan for Playa Blanca will be formulated by the Cabildo, either with its own resources or through external contracting, "in close coordination with the involved town councils and the Department of Territorial Policy, which will handle the processing of said plans".
This action between the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands represents, in their view, "an example of institutional collaboration in tourism planning, which continues a strategy that seeks to modernize tourist destinations without losing their identity and ensure orderly territorial development".