According to Vuelta a Espana race director Javier Guillen, the three-week race may start in Belgiu, Great Britain or in the Netherlands. He has revealed that some cities have all registered an interest in hosting the start of hi race. He added also that he would like to have an edition of the race finish on the Canary Islands.

"We’d love to finish some year on the Canary Islands. It would be our biggest ever logistical challenge", Guillén told AS. "We have requests for five Vueltas. They want us in Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands. We’ll start from Spain in 2016 since Porto has pulled out, and then in 2017 we’ll go to Nîmes."

Even if the economic crisis in Spain is strong, Guillen said that organizing the race has become easier. "We’ve compensated for the decline in local revenues with the sale of international television rights. We have 350 million viewers, the same level as the Giro, and on the roadsides we still have around 2.5 million spectators."