The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE), defended this Tuesday in Lanzarote that the data supports that the islands are advancing in the recovery, although without forgetting that the last two years have been "a journey through the desert" due to the consequences of covid.
In his opening speech at the second Lanzarote Reconstruction Forum organized by Biosfera TV, Torres was confident that this Wednesday, when the Ministry of Labor publishes the registered unemployment statistics, it will be verified that the Canary Islands fell below 200,000 unemployed in April.
"It is a historical barrier... and we are going to be below it", the president remarked, who also highlighted the growth of permanent hiring.
In this context, he stressed that Lanzarote is the island with the best indicators of employment increase in recent months, among other reasons, he recalled, because it was also "the most damaged" by the economic crisis derived from covid-19
"We need times of peace, to work as we are doing in the Canary Islands, so that Lanzarote can also continue to move forward", "I am completely sure that Lanzarote has a present and will have a much better future than the immediate past," he said.
For her part, the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo (PSOE), also stressed that the island is in activity and employment data "almost identical" to those prior to the pandemic.
"We have recovered a large part of that tourist influx and, if we continue at this rate, in a few months we will reach the figures of 2019, a great tourist year", she pointed out.
The president insisted on the need for Lanzarote to continue presenting itself as a "safe, connected and reliable" destination and recalled that, at the moment, the island has an air capacity assigned by the companies "higher than that of 2019".
Javier Puga Santana, CEO of Dinosol Supermarkets, Yolanda Perdomo Aparicio, analyst at the Global Tourism Strategist consultancy, José Valle Martínez, president of the Lanzarote Business Circle, Héctor Fernández, CEO of Turismo Lanzarote, and Alcibiades Trancho Lemes, dean of the College of Economists of Las Palmas, are participating in this second edition of the Reconstruction Forum.
