The mayors of Cartagena, San Pedro, Los Alcazares and San Javier, have started a round of contacts with the competent authorities in order to break the seasonality and turn the lake into a tourist reference in sailing and from the point of environmentally and tourism
The mayors of the four municipalities bordering the Mar Menor, Cartagena, San Javier, San Pedro and Los Alcazares, has begun a round of talks with political leaders to eliminate the current spread of existing powers over the lagoon.
As explained by the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the goal is to establish a single authority to determine the uses of the Mar Menor, thus facilitating their landscape and environmental protection and its conversion to a benchmark of quality tourism.
Barreiro noted that these contacts were initiated a few days ago at a meeting with the Minister of Tourism, followed by another one yesterday with the Minister of the Presidency and the Environment, and others in the near future, with other advisers and competition authorities various matters on the Mar Menor.
The idea, he explained the mayor of Cartagena, is to implement a model that works successfully in lakes in European countries.
This is to prepare a text with the force of law to set a single authority over the Mar Menor, in charge of defining its uses.
The current dispersion of authority, according to the mayors, prevents you set an appropriate use of tourism resources, which will turn the lagoon into a premium tourist reference in sailing and from the environmental point of view and landscape.
Barreiro said the initiative has served to break the current seasonal in that the tourist who travels out of season is demanding and requires quality services and the practice of sports that use the Mar Menor has to offer.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena