The mayor, José Miguel Luengo and the Councillor for Tourism, Antonio Martinez met this morning in the city of San Javier with representatives of Hostetur, Hostec and other catering businessmen with whom they will work to reach a detailed document that seal the final agreement between the municipality and the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Water, to give a legal solution to wedding tourism in La Manga.
Municipal representatives moved the content of the meeting recently held at the headquarters of the Ministry entrepreneurs in Madrid, with the Secretary of Stadium Environment, Pablo Saavedra and the General Director of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea, Raquel Orts in which it was agreed that the City is responsible for the corresponding authorizations in maritime-terrestrial public domain.
The Mayor explained that it is to close a protocol for granting such permits occupancy of maritime-terrestrial public domain that a catalog of suitable beaches is collected, as well as slots, maximum meter occupation, uses, and seasons in which they can grant permission to the maximum legal guarantee, so they were summoned to contribute their suggestions.
Business representatives and restaurateurs involved in tourism wedding were pleased to see a near solution to a problem that suffers a loophole in a new type of tourism, Wedding, has chosen La Manga as one of their favorite destinations.
José Miguel Luengo reiterated his defense of tourism wedding to employers and recalled that a study commissioned by the City Council on the economic impact of the event on the terrestrial maritime area of ​​La Manga figure at more than 3 million euros annual impact they have on hotel occupancy, hospitality, employment, and consumption involving a diverse celebration of this kind.
Luengo thanked entrepreneurial effort in this regard as wedding tourism contributes to the seasonality of tourism since the wedding season does not coincide with the so-called high season, as stated in the aforementioned study.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier