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Just found this post and video on Lanzarote Actualidad Facebook page. For those of you familiar with the island, the video shows The Fariones Hotel in Puerto del Carmen when it was first opened

50 years of tourism in lanzarote
This October 12, 2016 marks a half-century of the opening of Lanzarote as a tourist destination. In a small fishing village called the tiñosa opened on 12 October 1966, the first tourist hotel in Lanzarote. Existed at that time in parador of tourism and the small hotel zonzamas, in the capital of the island. With the investment of Vicente Calderón and Virgil Suárez would be launched in 1966 the first resort in Lanzarote called Playa Blanca, designed by the famous architect Fernando Fig trees, in which it would be renamed as Puerto Del Carmen. That same year, 1966, I would go back to the island césar manrique to open the jameos del agua and launch the network of centres of art, culture and tourism of Lanzarote. In 1968, in October, it would be opened the monument to the peasant, artistic work of césar manrique and Jesus Soto. The Node of the time I’d give this way this news of the inauguration of the house museum to the farmer (1968) and the opening of the hotel los fariones, first holiday in Lanzarote, which this October 12 is 50 Years of its opening. Half a century, 50 years of tourism in Lanzarote.
Pictures and video of rtve. National Film Archive, Node. 1968 (Monument to the farmer) and the hotel los fariones (1966). Lanzarote.