The Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of the Government of the Canary Islands, Yaiza Castilla, today asked to intensify measures to support the tourism sector to achieve an early exit from the economic and social crisis in which the Islands are immersed, such as consequence of the situation derived from the world health emergency caused by Covid-19. The reports of this department of the Government already discount for this year 2020 a fall in overnight stays and tourist turnover of around 60%.
The regional head of Tourism today founded this request, within the framework of the Economic Management Committee held electronically this morning by the Government of the Canary Islands and to which social agents (representatives of unions and employers) joined, on the important financial effect that it has had on tourism in the Canary Islands over the rest of the economic sectors and employment, for which he presented the results of the economic forecasts made by the Department of Studies and Research of the public company Tourism of the Canary Islands, which show “a brutal affect to tourism and therefore to the Canarian economy ”.
This condition, he said, has been staged in the closure of lodging establishments and ground planes, "which has forced a tourist zero during the state of alarm, which we still do not know how long it can last, but that many estimate that the return to normality would not occur before October ”.
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Yaiza Castilla explained that at the moment they handle two scenarios for the tourism sector, "scenarios, which, of course, are under continuous review depending on how the health crisis evolves in the Canary Islands and in the world". One of them is the one that foresees the total closure of tourist accommodation until September and the gradual recovery from October and another that estimates the initial opening of 10% of hotels from July to meet tourism demand. , mainly from the Canary Islands, and the intensification of openings from October, as health normality and air connectivity are recovered.
For these assumptions, the calculations already point at the close of 2020 with an average drop in overnight stays and turnover for the tourism sector of 65% for the first scenario (closing until September) and 58% for the second (opening 10% since July), with a direct impact on regional GDP significantly.
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