Óscar Noda celebrated last Thursday the direct interaction of the local Administration with directors of lodging complexes and hotel groups established in the south of Lanzarote, with whom in a first meeting, in this new period of government, they have agreed on monographic meetings to "discuss and listen to concerns and suggestions" on proposals from the sector inherent to "improvements in public services and infrastructures of municipal responsibility or channeled through the City Council demands of island, regional or state competence".
It was the commitment emanating from the meeting at the Timanfaya Palace hotel in Playa Blanca, where the mayor, the Councilor for Tourism and Beaches of Yaiza, Daniel Medina, and seventeen representatives of hotel entities participated.
Apart from addressing issues related to cleaning, housing, taxi service, production and distribution of water, which will be the subject of upcoming calls, although the mayor did outline "initiatives and files underway related to each of them." Both municipal representatives and hoteliers marked as a priority "the optimization of the public intercity transport service of Lanzarote." Noda reiterated his "will as the first municipal president and as a councilor of the Cabildo in the opposition to demand from the government of the First Island Corporation a service according to current demands derived from a much more ambitious specification of services than the current one."
In Yaiza, the mayor highlighted, "we have several isolated towns and that is inconceivable, because it limits the mobility of our people and in return stimulates the use of more private vehicles that generate more pollution on an Island that is committed to sustainability."
"The transport problem also has a major impact on labor mobility," as the hoteliers made known, who feel "the problem" on a daily basis.
Indeed, Óscar Noda stressed that "we are the municipality that leads the island's economy, so much so that we closed 2022 as the municipality with the lowest rate of job seekers in the Canary Islands and it is evident that many residents of Arrecife and other municipalities of the Island come and find work in Playa Blanca, mainly, but we agree that they need mobility guarantees with more itineraries and buses because traveling by car every day is not profitable."
