The Canary Islands tourism business associations, Ashotel, FEHT, Asofuer and FTL, demand that the Canary Islands Government complete the transfer of the State's Coastal competences and sign "now" the decree that brings the necessary resources or "use its own means, which it has".
The businessmen denounce that the process has been in process for almost two years, and that if it continues to be delayed it will cause "serious damage to the sector", since it has a direct connection with the maintenance of thousands of jobs and the continuity of many companies that depend directly on the corresponding authorizations.
“Tourism depends on both administrations and after the time elapsed there is a lack of will on the part of the State to finish ceding what no longer corresponds to it”, they comment from the business associations. “Assume your responsibility and do not leave a fundamental bureaucratic procedure halfway for many projects of tourist and general interest”.
It should be noted that these competences have already been contemplated in the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands since November 2018, but they are still not a reality.
In addition, the tourism sector also demands that the processing of paralyzed projects and files be initiated “ipso facto”, since "bureaucratic conflicts only contribute to worsening the experience of visitors" who come to the Islands, "a multi-experience destination that has sun and beach as two of its main attractions”.
“Numerous investments that leave the Islands are lost, there is a serious legal insecurity and there is an absolute paralysis and obsolescence in the use of the coastline", the business associations point out and affirm that "there is no coastal municipality that does not have paralyzed projects for accessibility, seasonal services or improvement of the beaches”.
"It is inadmissible that in a tourist archipelago like the Canary Islands there are procedures for renewal of concessions that last for more than 20 years, which leads companies that have those concessions, or investment projects to be in situations of fraud of law, or in no man's land, because the Administration does not do its job", they insist.