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- "The PSOE has not been able in four years to implement the Strategic Tourism Plan that are begging our business, social and sectoral groups, and the PP is dedicated to distort tourism data and is content to keep the Region in the tail car of national tourism, when we have plenty of reasons to be in the top positions, "said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena today

Cartagena, Sunday, February 23 -.

"Neither PP nor the PSOE can boast of having worked to promote tourism in the Region of Murcia, especially that of Cartagena and its region, which between yesterday and today take advantage of the visit of the Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel María Oliver, attacking each other for the lack of proposals, investment and results is another pathetic exercise of bipartisan politics outdated, "said the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padin, who argues that before the arrival of Cs to politics regional and municipal, "the transfer of the Ministry of Tourism to Cartagena or our return to Sicted was only a recurring pre-election promise, now it is an undeniable destination."

In addition, Manuel Padín says that today is a good opportunity for the Secretary of State to ask the mayor of Cartagena, "why in the four years he has had legislature has not even bothered to start a strategic plan for tourism in Cartagena as they are insistently claiming all the business, social and sectoral groups of the Comarca ".

"I could also ask him how it is possible that the project of the house-museum of Isaac Peral has been forgotten, something that Cs is going to rescue yes or yes this year," adds Padín.

For the spokesperson of Cs, "Cartagena and a Region as rich as ours can not continue year after year in the queue of a national tourism that has generated 18,500 million euros of economic impact and has risen by 7.3%", according to the data of the yearbook of cultural statistics published in 2017, "which shows the incompetent management of our leaders in the last decade".

On the other hand, Ciudadanos announces that it will ask at the next ordinary plenary session if the PSOE Government has already begun the appropriate procedures to achieve the accession of Cartagena as a destination to the Sicted (Integral System of Tourist Quality in Destination) to improve the quality of the tourism sector of the municipality, as agreed in the last plenary session.

"It is the best public tool to make a leap in quality and differentiate ourselves from the offer offered by the rest of the tourist destinations, the PP took us out of the system in an incomprehensible manner and I think the PSOE did not even consider returning," he said. The orange spokesman explains that this is a project promoted for years by the State Secretariat of Tourism (SET) with the support of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and already part of it in the Community of Murcia (which won the prize for the best tourist destination in FITUR), Lorca, Águilas, San Javier, Mazarrón, Puerto Lumbreras and the Commonwealth of Tourism Services of Sierra Espuña.

Manuel Padín believes that "without doubt, our full inclusion in the Sicted will in turn promote the necessary Tourism Strategic Plan, that broken promise of MC and PSOE when they entered the local government in 2015, a few months to finish the term we still have no news about this. "

The drafting of this plan is a cry of the sector for many years, "and as our hotel owners think: that plan should start from the Port of Cultures, which is where the technical specialists are and who has the capacity to do it," says Padín .

"Now PP and PSOE are blamed for poor policy planning to boost tourism, and even the PP falsifies the data," says Manuel Padin who has made reference to the information given by Lopez Miras talking about the region reaching three million of visitors during the year 2018 when the INE showed that not even one million visitors were reached, as denounced by the Parliamentary Group of Cs.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena