Mayor José Miguel Luengo met today at the City Council of San Javier with the director general of Business Activity Simplification and Digital Economy, Francisco Abril with which he has approached the collaboration between the regional and municipal administration to work on putting in March of the "smart beaches" project for La Manga del Mar Menor.
At the end of the meeting, Francisco Abril explained that the project to convert the beaches of La Manga del Mar Menor into smart beaches is part of the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy, EDUSI, for La Manga, which will involve a total investment in La Sleeve of 18.75 million euros, financed with ERDF funds, and which includes a section for the development of ICT applications.
The general director of Simplification of Business Activity and Digital Economy, Francisco Abril, explained that the project "that would be pioneering in Spain" can include different possibilities such as WiFi on beaches, tourist information on beaches, umbrellas where mobile devices can be loaded, and Applications that allow to see, to leave any place and in real time each beach, and to know the temperature, among other aspects of interest.
Abril added that "what we want is to design next to the City Council all those actions that contribute a plus to the tourist destination and that can benefit both the commercial sector as hotel and hotelier, as well as the citizen and tourist for the attractiveness and tools that will contribute the technology".
The mayor José Miguel Luengo showed his satisfaction for this type of actions that will make our beaches more attractive and comfortable for neighbors and visitors, for which compromised the municipal collaboration, in the face of a first pilot experience that is intended to be carried out on some of the beaches Before it spreads to the rest.
Luengo highlighted the importance that the EDUSI Strategy will have for La Manga del Mar Menor and was confident that it will fulfill its objective of contributing to the tourist revival of the town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier