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| Giménez: "We have detected unforeseen events that may affect the relaunch of tourism, both coastal, rural and urban" | Among other measures, it announces the promotion of 'beach weddings', which have been delayed since it was approved in plenary at the initiative of the MC in May 2018 This morning, the deputy spokesman for the Municipal Group MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, took stock of the first meetings that his training has held with agents from the regional tourism sector.
Among others, contacts have been maintained with the Association of Hoteliers of Cartagena and Region (HOSTECAR), as well as the association of beach bars and the rural tourism association of Campo de Cartagena. Giménez has informed of the unforeseen events that have been detected and that may affect the relaunch of tourism, both coastal, rural and urban.
He has detailed them in a general scenario in which "for everyone it is unknown what will happen this summer" although he considers that "that does not justify passivity or lack of foresight, because Cartagena must position itself for the future and that is not is doing". Weddings on unregulated beaches In the first place, the mayor of Cartagena has reported that "the local government has not been able to complete the simple process of approving weddings on the beach, so our hoteliers lose a market niche when we have 100 kilometers of coastline (not the 40 created by Castejón).
A CM project worked with HOSTECAR that has been delayed since the Plenary supported it in May 2018.
" "If the Executive does not take it to the next Plenary, we will order our technical services and we will present it, we do not admit any further delay," he said. He also valued the uncertainty of the concessionaires of beach bars, "whose opening is doubtful", explaining at the time that "they continue to wait for them to be exempted from the canon and to extend the concession, weighed down these four years by the lousy state of the Mar Menor , and that this summer will be uneconomic ". ERTE in Puerto de Culturas In another order of things, on April 23 the municipal website announced an agreement between the City Council and the 'Cartagena Puerto de Culturas' works committee to request a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) in the municipal society.
After weeks without news, last Saturday it was published in a regional media that the ERTE would be requested this week. In the opinion of the MC leader, "urban tourism has two bad news this week, both the result of the local government's unpredictability.
First, the burden of the bad image generated by the lack of municipal control over the crowds of people on Monday.
While the Government was making a 'book' we were on all television stations due to their incapacity, and then what is not seen, which is the unpredictability in Puerto de Culturas.
" At this point, Giménez has considered that "if the information is true, he has been caught on foot changed.
After two months of alarm, when the sites can be opened and 'safe' visits can be encouraged, it is when the Government proposes the ERTE and announces that it works to open in June in a phased manner.
What have you done with Puerto de Culturas these two months? " "If they announced ERTE on April 23, why do they present it later in May? Everything points to mismanagement and an alarming lack of common sense.
When we could be announcing and showing the benefits of 'safe visits', because it could Having trained workers and adapted the centers since March 14, what we have is a press release for June and an ERTE that, if not rejected, is late.
Their carelessness compromises the future of tourism in Cartagena, "he added. Rural tourism, without institutional support Finally, in relation to rural tourism, after listening to the sector, the deputy spokesman for MC Cartagena has regretted that after announcing (the Government) "some aid-bonds for accommodation have left out the rural sector.
A tourism that grew before the crisis and that it offers security after the alarm, and that it does not receive municipal attention, to the point of leaving them out of such aid.
" "What underlies this gibberish in one of the essential economic activities of our municipality is lack of method and ignorance of reality," concluded Jesús Giménez.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena
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