The Minister of Tourism of the Canary Government, Yaiza Castilla, acknowledges that the decision -this Monday- British government of include the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands in the fourteen-day quarantine that tourists traveling to Spain will have to do when they return to the UK, it is a “jug of cold water” just at the moment when the tourism sector began to timidly recover, although far from the 2019 data.
Castilla, although confirming its optimism, does not hide that the negotiations “they can get complicated” Above all, because the United Kingdom no longer belongs to the European Union. However, although he asks “prudence” since the works are being carried out “State-State”, the first reservation cancellations are beginning to appear. And although without official data, the regional councilor for Tourism has classified it as “brutal”.
In addition, just on the day that the data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) for the second quarter of 2020 were known, in which they continue to reflect the situation derived from the pandemic, and where employment has fallen in the Canary Islands in 10,600 people, Yaiza Castilla again requests the central government that the Temporary Employment Regulation Files “be extended at least until December.”
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