The PP propose a 500 euro tourist voucher for ‘staycations’ in the Canary Islands

The Partido Popular (PP) are proposing a tourism voucher to promote staycations within the Canary Islands, with residents being able to deduct up to 500 euros in their tax returns for holiday expenses. They said it is to increase internal demand in the islands, boost the economy, and support the tourism sector by promoting holidays in the archipelago.

In a non-law proposal (NLP) that will be debated in parliament next week, the PP will raise the need to establish new formulas to support the revitalization and reactivation of the main sector of the Canarian economy.

The proposal that will be defended by the deputy of the party, Fernando Enseñat, would mean that Canaries based families could deduct up to 500 euros in the income statement of their tax return for tourist expenses made within the autonomous community, for which the Government of the Canary Islands should add this new deduction in the Autonomous section of the ‘Declaracion de La Renta’.

In addition, in the same plenary session, the parliamentary spokesperson and president of the PP of the Canary Islands, Australia Navarro, will ask the president, Ángel Víctor Torres, for the precise percentage of funds from the State and the European Union destined to the rescue of the tourism sector in the Islas, which last year lost more than 70% of its income, and whose slowdown continued to accentuate in the first quarter of this year.

"The recovery of the tourism sector will not happen overnight when the vaccination process in Europe ends, it will be a slow and complicated process, and it will need all the support of the administrations, not only with a specific rescue plan, but also with tax incentives to relaunch domestic consumption so that our tourist destination is much more competitive abroad," he said.