The strike in the Tourist Centers is causing travel booking cancellations, as Aetur has warned in a statement, after a meeting that the professionals of the sector held at its headquarters. In the meeting, it states that travel agencies and tour operators showed their "enormous concern" about the repercussions that this strike is causing "not only to the tourism sector but to the island of Lanzarote in general" and warned that the cruise season, which begins in September, "begins with risks of diversions to other ports and the study of choosing other stopovers, if the situation is not restored over these days.
"Combined trips (Lanzarote-with any other island) have also been significantly affected, having to cancel all scheduled excursions derived from the neighboring island," says Aetur in its statement, in which it also expresses its "fear" for the effects that the strike may cause in the Congresses and Meetings sector, which "will soon begin its season as well", and in which there are "advance warnings of cancellations of trips scheduled for the first half of September."
Thus, from Aetur they ask for "prudence and responsibility to reach an understanding between the parties", and demand "that the situation be restored as soon as possible so that the consequences do not cause more damage than the damage caused to the economic-tourist and social fabric of the island of Lanzarote."
Alternative Excursion Program
At the meeting, travel agencies and tour operators on the island also agreed on measures to try to alleviate in some way the effects of the strike at the CACT, described by the group as "enormously irresponsible."
"Due to the prolonged strike situation and the fact that they occur cyclically in each legislature, the association has decided to approve an alternative excursion program, outside the Tourist Centers network, with a varied cultural and leisure offer, taking advantage of the quantity and variety of activities currently registered by the Association of Active Tourism and Tourist Leisure also integrated in Aetur," they announced.
