000 in 2006 . This excessive growth has occurred despite the pioneering implementation planning regulations in Lanzarote through successive Plans Spatial Island (PIOT) and enacted moratoriums for construction, urban planning has been breached by a good number of new hotels, whose licenses were canceled for justice, being currently legal in a difficult position, and whose future is still unknown. 5
The economy geared towards the tourism sector and the construction , with workers often from the peninsula and temporary stay on the island, has been an island of Lanzarote migrating to an island that lives a result of massive immigration which has experienced dramatic population growth. Currently, half of the population living in Lanzarote has been born out of the island, and a quarter of the census are foreigners. Although soles have greater media impact immigration from Africa mainland by sea (the so-called phenomenon of boats ), the circumstances in which this takes place, the largest population contingent proceeds, however, the continent Europe .
In short, Lanzarote has lived in recent decades the greatest socioeconomic development in its history, finally abandoning their marginality. Thus, the island now assumes some of the most important challenges facing modern societies of our time, such as the need to reconcile economic development and sustainability of its natural environment, the integration of immigrants in within a multicultural society or maintenance of a cultural identity in the context of a global world , recovering the primary sector , which continues to serve as a powerful lure for the tourism industry, and committed to diversification of its economy
