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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line La Aldea Tourism boost The town of La Aldea de San Nicolas in Gran Canaria is looking to tourism to resolve the worrying local unemployment problem.  A local cheese maker has also closed down in recent times, adding to the jobless queue. The council in La Aldea has set aside land to build a large upmarket hotel and a golf course to attract tourists but a dispute over boundaries with local landowners has so far delayed the plans. “We don’t want to replicate the tourism model of the resorts in the south but rather to offer visitors activities that blend in with our rural surroundings,” says mayor Tomás Pérez. The authorities will have to be very creative in their tourism plans if they are to get around limitations such as the fact that 85 per cent of the land around La Aldea is classified as conservation land. “It is ironic that we are one of the places with most hours of sunshine in the Canaries and yet have been unable to develop any form of tourism here so far,” added the mayor. This article appears in the print edition 608 of Island Connections
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