The organizers of the sports event Lanzarote Heroes by Arrecife accuse the Arrecife City Council of "cynicism", which is promoting itself in Madrid at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) as the capital of sports. "There are many entities and private companies that are waiting for the payment of the subsidies that were granted for the development of sports events", begins in a press release issued this Friday. Thus, they indicate that this is the case of this event organized by the company K3 Servicios de Eventos in November 2022, and that to date "continues to pay for the poor management of the capital's consistory".
Lanzarote Heroes by Arrecife celebrated its first and only edition on the weekend of November 4 to 6, 2022, with "three intense days" of activities in the capital. The organizers state that betting on this type of event is "a great effort so that all participants have a pleasant impression of a novel sports event, and that without a doubt, helped to boost the area from an economic and tourist point of view".
More than two years later, the company organizing the event denounces that "it is still waiting for the collection of the subsidy that was granted to it, not understanding all the stumbling blocks that the public administration puts". Thus, it indicates that the organizers have had to face, with their own resources, "all the economic expense involved in holding an event of these characteristics, from infrastructure, security plan, personnel, to the most basic such as the payment of the shirts that were delivered or the trophies that the first classified received".
K3 Servicios de Eventos wants to denounce the "cynicism" of the Arrecife City Council, promoting different sports events in FITUR for this year and "boasting of being the capital of sports, while promoters of sports events are agonizing due to the lack of collection, and are on the verge of disappearing due to the lack of professionalism of the people who are in charge of the Arrecife City Council".