Friday, January 19, 2007
Parliament extends tourist moratorium
The Canary Islands Parliament yesterday voted to extend the moratorium on tourist development for a further three years, until 2010. Under the moratorium, it will not be possible to grant licences for tourist development, nor to reclassify land for this use, except in some exceptional circumstances for projects of special quality and interest to provide leisure facilities that compliment tourist accommodation.
Yes, I know that everywhere you look there seems to be some new building going on, but these projects must have, mostly, been approved before the moratorium (or, so they tell us). The only exception granted since 2003 in Tenerife is for the c. 200 bed, five star hotel that is to be built next to the golf course in Buenavista del Norte.
El Parlamento apoya tres años más de moratoria
