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The Canary Islands will demand health reciprocity for tourism this summer
The Canary Islands will demand "sanitary reciprocity" and that the "traceability" of the movements of its visitors be guaranteed, without undermining their rights, in order to reactivate its tourism sector this summer, first at the regional level and, if the conditions are met, at the national.
This was stated this Monday when the Minister of Tourism of the Canary Islands Government, Yaiza Castilla, was interviewed in Onda Cero, who has specified the temporary development of the plan that this autonomous community has presented to the National Executive to be able to undertake the return to the new normality of this sector, vital for the economy of the archipelago.
Castilla stressed that the department he directs carries out "a laboratory of tourist protocols to review the entire value chain from whichand the tourist leaves from his place of origin until he arrives in the Canary Islands, enjoys a vacation and returns "to his home. In a month and a half, the results of these works that aim to safely reactivate the tourist fabric of the islands will be known , which represents 35% of the region's GDP.
Due to its condition as an archipelago and an ultraperipheral region of the EU, the Canary Islands "have been able to better control the pandemic" of COVID-19, said Castilla, who has considered that, therefore, the islands could reactivate their "tourism within of the archipelago "always guaranteeing the sanitary security of residents and visitors.
Canarias: "We are not willing to open the tourist market at any price, but always under a guarantee of sanitary reciprocity"
To guarantee health security, the Canary Islands will prepare public health for residents and private for tourists.
This summer espThey were to achieve a "slight opening" of the regional market and the international market will depend on the opening of the borders.
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Tourism sector and COVID-19
UNWTO urges the industry and travelers to meet this challenge with common sense and proportionate measures.
Tourism is currently one of the worst affected sectors and the World Tourism Organization has revised its 2020 forecast for international arrivals and revenue generated by the sector, while stressing that those predictions will likely need to be revised.
In the context of the travel restrictions that are being introduced and underlines the importance of international dialogue and cooperation and highlights that the challenge of COVID-19 also represents an opportunity to show how solidarity can go beyond borders.
The tourism sector, more than any other economic activity with social impact, is based on interaction between people. The organization itself has been guiding the reThe tourism sector is exposed on several fronts:
• Cooperating closely with the World Health Organization (WHO), the lead United Nations agency for managing this outbreak;
• Ensuring, together with WHO, that health measures are applied
ensuring that unnecessary impacts on travel and international trade are minimized.
• Positioning ourselves in solidarity with the affected countries, emphasizing demonstrated resilience and lending ourselves to support recovery.
Both organizations are closely linked with their respective measures, as well as other United Nations agencies.
UNWTO Secretary General Zurab Pololikashvili maintains regular contact with governments and leaders of the tourism sector.
What will the day after in the accommodation sector be like
Entrepreneurs ask for a rescue plan like that of the bank in 2009
The general director of Ilunion Hotels, considers 2020 as lost, "which is expected to close with less than half of international arrivals than the previous year", and prefers to think in 2021, "that this happens as quickly as possible", taking into account that "this summer we will open with ridiculous prices but maintaining unforeseen investments in order to transmit security to the client." A year to forget in which, however, a certain accommodation offer will suffer less after the reopening, as coincided in pointing out with Juan Carlos Sanjuán, founder and CEO of Casual Hotels.
Experts point to June 7 as the date for, as Sanjuán explained, “the gradual opening of the hotels, although not all will open. The chains with several in the same destination in principle will open one in each place because perhaps what we do not have is customers ". The truth is that businessmen have already become aware that “this year we will all be at a loss. The most important thing is to provide liquidity to companies ”.
Everything will depend, in the words of Preciados, on four factors: “When the alarm state opens; when mobility is effectively restored; when we will regain reliability as a safe destination in the face of demand; and when demand recovers in such a way that it generates enough income to reopen the hotels ”.
Even in these circumstances there will be a certain accommodation offer that will suffer less, as Sanjuán has underlined. For example, “small urban hotels, aparthotels and tourist apartments where the client will not have to cross paths with other guests. Also those focused on people under 40 years of age, who are the ones who show the least fear when considering traveling. The biggest hotels or those that imply having to take a plane to get there are the ones that will suffer the most until there is no vaccine ”.
The rent a car of the Canary Islands fear for its continuity and ask for measures
The Professional Associationl
of Car Rental Employers of the Canary Islands (Apeca) has also requested that the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) be extended beyond the state of alarm, because the demand in the tourism sector will continue to be low until the air connections. Six out of ten entrepreneurs have doubts about its continuity if the activity is not reestablished before the summer.
Apeca indicates that since the declaration of the state of alarm, its car fleet has stopped, more than 70,000 vehicles, and adds in a statement that it is not known when the tourist activity will be reactivated, which depends largely on the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy , France and the rest of Spain, where "they are still fighting the coronavirus."
He explains that he has conducted a survey among businessmen in the sector, to see the impact of this crisis, and the results are "very worrying, since 90% of the fleets in the Canary Islands are stopped and 60% of businessmen have doubts about if they will be able to continue with their business if the tourist activity does not begin before September ".
He adds that in addition to the measures that are being taken by the Government to defer the payment of taxes, a measure that would help the sector in its recovery is that the IGIC applicable to rental without a driver is the same as the tourist one, the general rate of the 7% and not the current 15, during the next tourist seasons.
Another measure that, according to Apeca, would help various sectors, would be to encourage the acquisition of new vehicles for the car rental sector with government aid, something similar to the PIVE plan. Something that, to
jApeca's office, would facilitate the renewal of fleets, to continue collaborating in the reduction of emissions to the environment and would give a boost to dealers and importers, "which are also going to suffer large losses during 2020."
HEALTH
Toy libraries, spaces to play and grow
Children play for fun, but play is an important aspect of their learning and growth, expanding their knowledge and experiences, while fostering their curiosity and confidence.
«The child must fully enjoy games and recreations, which must be oriented towards the aims pursued by education; society and public authorities shall endeavor to promote the enjoyment of this right ”, Declaration of the Rights of the Child (principle 7, paragraph 3) approved unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959. Furthermore,“ children play for fun, but play is also an important aspect of their learning and development. Play helps children to expand their knowledge and experiences and to develop their curiosity and confidence. Children learn by trying to do things, comparing results, asking questions, setting new goals, and finding ways to achieve them. Play also favors the development of language proficiency and the ability to reason, plan, organize and make decisions. Also, stimulation and play "They are especially important if the child has a disability", as collected by UNICEF.
Definition
From the Latin ludus, «game», «toy» and from the Greek word théke «box», «place where something is kept», it is a space where some kind of activity is carried out for children with some difficulty, such as games and games. toys, especially in early childhood education, in order to stimulate physical and mental development and solidarity with other people. Originated as a pedagogical space from the 60s, there are several types of toy libraries depending on the location, age at which it is directed or activities carried out.
In Spain, at the end of the decadeIn the 1970s, some public institutions decided to create or subsidize permanent toy libraries. These are recreational-educational institutions that have distributed and set spaces for play, toys and recreational elements, workshops to design, build and repair toys ... and specialized educators. They are an alternative that is offered to children and sometimes young people, to alleviate the socioeconomic, pedagogical and cultural limitations that our society imposes on children in their most natural and proper activity: play.
Mainly aimed at children between 3 and 12 years old, among the many benefits that these playful spaces provide.
Benefits of toy libraries
They favor integral development
They promote coexistence
They promote respect, order and cleanliness
Imagination and creativity are encouraged
They offer a healthy and safe environment
They are attended by specialized and qualified personnel
They guarantee fun and entertainment
