Tourism
Tourism studies
We carry out tailor-made tourism studies for public and private institutions, such as analysis of tourism competitiveness, comparisons with other destinations or sectorial analysis, such as, for example, the evaluation of the Tourism Law of 2013 carried out in 2014, the analysis of Holiday Rentals in 2018 or the study of the Shopping Centres of the South of Gran Canaria in 2023, all of them prepared for the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, as well as participation in the first Strategic Plan for Tourism in the Canary Islands (January 2019). During the pandemic, in April 2020, we were entrusted by the Government of the Canary Islands with coordinating the development of Covid-19 prevention protocols for hotel and non-hotel establishments.
Tourism Blog AntonioGarzón.com
Since 2010, tourist articles have been published on the Blog AntonioGarzon.com, adding up to more than 350 articles in various categories of tourist topics by 2025, including:
– Tourist moratoriums, population growth and overtourism
– Holiday rentals and residentialisation
– Tourism sustainability
– Tourism trend studies (Reiseanalyse, ITB, etc.)
– Professional training in the Canary Islands
– Sports tourism, Silver Tourism, etc.
Participation in local and national press, radio and TV with articles or opinion comments on tourism, as well as in forums and conferences.
CATPE Tourism Reports
The first Report on the tourism competitiveness of the Canary Islands for the Think Tank CATPE (June 2014) analyses the competitive factors that have suffered some lack of updating, such as tourist infrastructure, modern accommodation, complementary offer and the quality of the tourist service. These factors, together with price, security and climate, make up the seven areas on which the 22 proposals of the report have been focused. The second CATPE Report on the tourism competitiveness of the Canary Islands (February 2016) takes into account both the evolution of the factors analysed (moratorium, tourism laws, dual training,…) and the issues that have been escalating to the tourist news during 2015 (e.g. holiday rentals) suggesting a set of proposals that can help to recover the competitive power of the Canary Islands tourism offer.
Publications
"Determining factors of tourism competitiveness of Gran Canaria" (2011)
The essay identifies the main factors that have conditioned the loss of tourism competitiveness of the Gran Canaria destination since 2000. To do so, the stages of the destination are classified and delimited, firstly, from the stage of tourist introduction (1886-1959), through the stage of tourist adaptation (1960s) and the stage of tourist growth (1970-1999), to the stage of maturity of the destination (from 2000). In the journey through the tourist history of Gran Canaria, the tourist crises of each stage are pointed out and their causes are interpreted, such as, for example, the “price liberation crisis” (1979-1981) and the “deceleration crisis” (1987-1991). The main focus of this work is on the so-called “destination crisis”, derived from the maturity phase of Gran Canaria.
"Self-determined tourism in the case of the Canary Islands: reducing dependencies and conflicts - enabling diversification" (2023)
The Canary Islands serve as a case study of the transformation towards a sustainable tourism model, addressing the associated strategic challenges and conflicts of interest. Self-determined tourism means developing a conscious decision for the future scenarios of the islands and being coordinated between entrepreneurship, politics and science to find suitable strategies together with national and international travel companies for the benefit of the entire Canary Islands tourism network.