Centers, plural of center. According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, center is the "place where a certain activity is most intensely developed", and also "Place where people or groups meet, come or concentrate for some reason or with some purpose ...
Centers, plural of center. According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, center is the "place where a certain activity is most intensely developed", and also "Place where people or groups meet, come or concentrate for some reason or with some purpose."
It seems that in the case we are going to, we must consider "Centers" to be the network of places on our island of Lanzarote where an activity is intensely developed, which, by its name, is in the field of art, culture and tourism. Our "centers" also comply with the 11th meaning of the Dictionary, since they gather, attend or concentrate groups of people for artistic, cultural or tourist reasons.
But, let's go now to that of "Art, Culture and Tourism".
The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says that Art, from the Latin, ars, artis, is the "Virtue, disposition and ability to do something." And, in addition, the "Manifestation of human activity through which a personal and disinterested vision is expressed that interprets the real or imagined with plastic, linguistic or sound resources."
To this effect, we could compare our centers with, for example, a museum. If so, if you were going to Madrid, would you stop going to the Prado Museum because it does not have or has its cafeteria closed? Can you imagine a museum where you enter and do not find someone at the entrance who greets you and whom you can ask about that center?
And, Culture? Our dictionary says that it is the "Set of knowledge that allows someone to develop their critical judgment", and the "Set of ways of life and customs, knowledge and degree of artistic, scientific, industrial development, in an era, social group, etc.". It specifies that popular culture is the "Set of manifestations in which the traditional life of a people is expressed."
Given this of our "Tourist Centers", we could also consider them ethnographic, architectural or historical museums. And, I ask you the same. If you travel to Granada, would you stop visiting the Alhambra if they told you that the cafeteria has been closed for those days?
And, now, we go to Tourism, from the English tourism, which according to our dictionary is the "activity or fact of traveling for pleasure" or the "Set of means leading to facilitate these trips" and also the "Set of people who make this type of trip."
I believe that, in this regard, our "Tourist Centers" are a similar claim to that of the ruins of its monuments for Greece, or its pyramids for Egypt, its museums for Madrid, the Puerta de Sol or the Gran Vía. For Barcelona Las Ramblas or its Gothic quarter or the Sagrada Familia. The same as for Tenerife the Teide.
So, would you stop traveling to Greece, Egypt, Barcelona, Madrid or Tenerife if they told you that in those centers, inside them, there is no cafeteria or restaurant?
And, do you think that any German, English, Russian or Spanish would stop coming to Lanzarote because Jameos del Agua, Montañas del Fuego or Monumento al Campesino did not have a restaurant? I think not at all.
And then? What is the problem with the Centers? If the restoration of losses and the tickets cause good profits, what is the problem to remove the restaurants and cafeterias from all the Centers?
I await response. Greetings.