The business done in Las Palmas by sending users to the polluting trucks that are retreating in the south of the island for the Carnival parade already has an average price: 90 euros. There were 110 floats in 2023 and the business is 600.000 euros in just four hours. Although the City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana applies strict security controls, it cannot always avoid the presence, as in 2023, of security agents enthusiastic about the consumption of drinks. This 2024, Tirajana plans to begin charging more ecotax for the polluting emissions generated by old vehicles that are used, minus the municipal associations. It is argued that it makes no sense to defend sustainability and associate the destination of mobility with fossil energy. In Germany, beer festivals charge an ecotax.
This is what is being charged for piling people into vehicles like old tomato trucks that travel through the streets of Maspalomas and Playa del Inglés. It is a business where no one has done a study on who is who in this parade and, after guaranteeing the minimum in the Las Palmas carnival, it reaches the south of the island with a profitability of 300%. So much so that there are people who have this parade as their only activity all year. In Maspalomas sound, advertising, restaurant, catering companies from Las Palmas and some private accommodation businesses carry out this activity marked, mainly, by the presence of officials who use this type of trucks to accept invitations from companies in the service sector with interests. administrative. As the officials are disguised, no one can identify these practices in Maspalomas and even less so in Las Palmas.
This commercial practice is only useful to Playa del Inglés because tourists who see the event go viral on social networks because, for the purposes of spending at the destination, the number of users is very debatable. To begin with, there are hardly any electric trucks and the noise has to be covered with high-decibel music to avoid. The same thing happens with the Pryde in Playa del Inglés. The carbon footprint of the transport of goods adapted for human cargo on local roads in Tirajana generates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by the vehicles used for the transport of goods. These emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and other gases harmful to the environment.
