The Council of Tenerife will place tourist information boards in the marinas about whale watching trips
The Council of Tenerife will place eight tourist information boards that will provide information about whale watching trips in the marinas where this activity is carried out and in areas of high tourist activity in the south of the island as a way to boost this tourist product and to inform about local marine life.
These eight tourist information boards that will provide information about whale watching trips will be placed in the marinas where this activity is carried out, and in the areas of high tourist traffic located in the south of the island as a way to promote this tourist activity and the marine richness the coastline of Tenerife has.
The vice-president of the Council of Tenerife and tourism councillor, José Manuel Bermúdez, has said that “we have been developing a series of projects in collaboration with representatives of the whale watching ships to promote this tourist activity”. The councillor added that “the continuous presence of cetaceans in the surrounding areas of Tenerife have turned this island in the second most popular place in the world for whale watching”.
Three informative boards will be placed in Puerto Colon, Los Cristianos and Los Gigantes. The other five informative boards will be placed in tourist towns including Adeje, Arona and Santiago del Teide where there are high numbers of tourists.
This initiative is part of the plan for the promotion of whale watching in the island. Other measures include the creation of a quality certification that assures a quality service and a quality customers’ service by the companies that provide these trips. Likewise, in the near future a Cetaceans Interpreting Centre will be created and a series of courses on cetaceans will be given to tourist guides.
Among the cetaceans that can be found in the waters surrounding Tenerife Island, there is a stable population of about 500 individual short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Another cetacean species that can be found in these waters are the bottlenose dolphins that are usually seen in groups of around 20 individuals.
The initiatives carried out by the Tenerife Tourism Corporation with this respect are part of the plan created to dynamize the tourist product called “Tenerife Acoge” which counts with the collaboration of the tourism department within the Canary Islands Government and the Spanish Ministry of Tourism.