Whilst I agree with my friend Jack and have no doubt that getting mentioned on Lost will be good advertising for the island (I mean Tenerife), it's possible that some are getting a little too excited about the free publicity and have *lost* the plot (pun intended.)
The background, in case you're the other person on the planet who hasn't seen any of this series, is that Tenerife got 5 seconds of fame having it's name splashed across the screen at the start of one episode.
Just the name mind. As Miguel at Canarias Bruta points out, the scenes were actually filmed in Hawaii, which, as everyone knows, is similar. Obviously, it'll do!
What I'm saying is that to sit up and think, "Oh that looks nice, I think I'll go there for my vacation", kinda tends to require that the images are of the real thing.
Although, as Miguel says, at least they didn't put a bloke in a Mexican sombrero sleeping his siesta (undoubtedly beneath a cactus, at a hacienda in the pueblo.)
And, bear in mind that it's only the fictional character of Richard Alpert who is purported to have originated from Tenerife, not an actual real person.
In a further post, Bermúdez is "Lost", however, we learn that José Manuel Bermúdez, Vice President of the Tenerife Island Corporation and Councillor for the area of tourism and planning, has now offered up the island (of Tenerife) to the producers and scriptwriters of Lost and invited them along "so they can get to know the island's possibilities as a filming location." Words like stable door, horse and bolted come to mind, because the final season of the series is being shown now, which they've practically finished shooting and film in Hawaii anyway.
Canarias Bruta also point out the flaw that Alpert is hardly a Canarian name, though my guess is he's the granddad of that bloke with a brass band in Tijuana.
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