Adeje
Tenerife resort municipality with a high tourist-bed-to-resident ratio.
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Why does a town of 50,000 need laws written for a population many times that size?
Timeline for Adeje
Cleared the 4,000-bed and ratio thresholds triggering binding duties
Nomads & Communities: Canaries make tourist towns a legal tierBackground
Adeje, on Tenerife's south-western coast, is one of the first towns in line to be classified under The Canary Islands' new tourist-municipality law, which sets binding duties for towns whose tourist beds far outnumber their residents.
With a population of roughly 50,000 (2024-25), Adeje carries the highest concentration of five-star hotels on Tenerife, concentrated in the Costa Adeje resort strip that includes Playa del Duque and the Siam Park water park, one of the island's biggest visitor draws. Its bed stock, built around premium and package tourism, is exactly the profile the new law's excelencia tier was designed to catch.
If the regional tourism authority confirms Adeje crosses the bed-to-resident or five-star-capacity thresholds, the town inherits statutory duties to plan and fund infrastructure against the visitor numbers it already carries rather than its resident population.