The Lanzarote Cabildo has started procedures to cancel the authorisation granted to various hotel companies to increase the size of their accommodations, because at least five years have passed and they have expired without the projects for the establishments having materialised, affecting 1,348 tourist beds that permission was given for.
The Cabildo has reminded that the Canary Islands Tourism Renewal and Modernisation Law of 2013, allows hoteliers who undertake modernisation plans in their establishments, the right to compensation by increasing their capacity.
However, these must be consolidated within five years after the modernisation plan begins, a requirement that has not been met in the case of more than 1,300 pending beds.
"The Department of Tourism Planning must review ex officio whether the deadlines have been met and, given that the holders of these licenses have not notified anything in these five years, we have opened up to four expiration files on as many tourism promoters”, explained industry advisor, Jesús Machín.
