The spokesperson for the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group in the Tourism Commission, Francisco Déniz, has asked the Minister of the area, Yaiza Castilla, that the rescue plan for the tourism sector of the Government of the Pact of the Flowers to mitigate the socioeconomic situation caused by the pandemic "not be at any price or to maintain a model that is already dead and exhausted."
"Public funds cannot continue to finance a business strategy based on mass tourism and the all-inclusive formula," Déniz assured Minister Castilla. For Sí Podemos Canarias, that model "is based on the devaluation of work, with hiring formulas that only seek to lower costs and that will now worsen with the entry of investment funds."
During the Tourism, Industry and Commerce Commission held this Wednesday, Déniz proposed that "funds and public resources to the sector be conditioned on environmental tax measures, promotion of labor quality and for those companies that take workers out of the ERTE and do not make EREs while distributing profits in the management summit"
For Déniz, "until now tourism policy has been dictated by companies for their own benefit and not for the needs of the majority and the general welfare of the Canarians"
Therefore, he insisted to the Minister that "it is not about dismantling tourism, but about changing priorities and seeking a new perspective by giving more weight to domestic tourism, Canarian interior tourism." "If we continue building a Canary Islands for a single tourist model, we run the risk of destroying ourselves," he concluded.
