The CEMTUR CANARIAS proposal aims to address a highly relevant and crucial issue for ensuring the future development of our region and the well-being of its inhabitants: the capacity of the tourism industry to generate competitive, stable, and high-quality employment in the Canary Islands. Specifically, it seeks to add value by providing knowledge through a thorough, rigorous, and innovative analysis of the challenges and potential of tourism employment in the Canary Islands, adopting a spatial and georeferenced perspective that encompasses various territorial areas. Its main objectives are the following:
First, the spatial configuration of tourism employment in a fragmented island territory will be analyzed, offering a diagnosis of the degree of diversification or specialization of the activity in the Archipelago, as well as its capacity to absorb new jobs and the possible buffering effect and/or vulnerability that this distribution could have in the face of possible aggregate shocks or changes in demand.
Secondly, and as a central focus of the project, the quality of tourism employment being generated in the Canary Islands will be measured, considering both aspects of the labor market context and the characteristics of the job itself. This will be achieved through the development of a methodology for defining, constructing, and adapting employment quality indicators (EQIs) that are suitable for application to the islands.
Next, we will delve into the specific study of the composition of tourism employment based on the qualifications of the groups that make it up and the correspondence between these qualifications of the workers with the positions they hold in tourism companies, assessing the mismatches between the supply and demand of qualifications, as well as identifying the causes of these imbalances.
Finally, specific tourism development axes will be determined, in line with the Canary Islands' Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3), taking into account the characteristics and employability potential of the population in each of the geographical areas under analysis, and recommending concrete action proposals. Likewise, the necessary training programs to make employment in the sector competitive and ensure the sustainable continuation of tourism will be studied.