SPEL defends its "complementary role" within the Tourist Centers

The Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society has made these statements after the public demonstrations regarding the contract promoted by the CACT

June 17 2025 (19:38 WEST)
Tourist Centers. Cueva de los Verdes.
Tourist Centers. Cueva de los Verdes.

In light of the public statements made recently regarding the contract promoted by the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism (CACT), also known as MET, the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society (SPEL) wanted to clarify, from institutional respect, "the scope and purpose of its activity, as well as the full complementarity of the work entrusted to each island entity."

The main mission of SPEL, among others, is "the foreign promotion of the Lanzarote destination in the various international tourism markets, as well as the planning of the destination. This work allows Lanzarote to be positioned in an increasingly competitive global market, directly contributing to the generation of economic activity and employment on the island."

For its part, the contract promoted by the Centers, as a public business entity with its own powers, addresses issues of strategic planning around the Centers and which, from these, affect the island as a whole, having as its main mission to contribute to changing the island's tourism model through the development of initiatives and projects that help transform, not only tourism as an economic sector, but as a tool and source of financing to improve the lives of the people of Lanzarote through the income generated by the Centers. 

In this sense, SPEL assures that "far from overlapping, both lines of action are fully complementary, acting on different but interconnected levels, which contribute to strengthening the overall competitiveness of the island's tourism model."

From SPEL they reiterate "the total willingness to collaborate institutionally in as many clarifications as are needed, and encourages anyone who requires it, to formulate as many questions as they deem appropriate within the scope of the powers of this Society, in order to deepen the knowledge of the specific actions that SPEL has been developing for years in the service of the general interest of Lanzarote."

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