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The tourism of weddings officially incorporates to the tourist offer of the municipality of San Javier "after to have obtained to give legal shelter to a practice in boom generating new opportunities as they are the weddings in the beach" the mayor announced today Jose Miguel Luengo in the City council of San Javier, accompanied by the Councilor for Tourism, Antonio Martínez, the director of the Institute of the Region of Murcia, Manuel Fernández-Delgado and the head of the Demarcation of Coasts in Murcia, Francisco Marín Arnaldos, in an act that included the presence of numerous entrepreneurs in the sector.
The councilman of Tourism and Commerce, Antonio Martinez has been in charge of managing the project of wedding tourism, which seeks idyllic landscapes of the sea, with a file that has lasted for more than two years, with the intervention of the three institutions, because of the problems offered by the occupation of the terrestrial maritime public domain to which the Law reserves for "necessary or convenient" services.
The newly achieved declaration of Local Tourist Interest in Wedding Tourism, promoted by the City of San Javier, is what has allowed the exception of the Law to "consolidate what is one of the strengths of tourism in the municipality of San Javier ", said the mayor, Antonio Martínez.
The economic study conducted to obtain the declaration of Local Tourist Interest estimated two years ago in more than 3 million euros the incidence in the area of ​​wedding tourism, according to industry data.
Permits, which will be processed through the City of San Javier, which becomes the subsidiary responsibility for the occupation, will be granted for a certain time, space and place in the sand area of ​​the beach, exclusively for the ceremony, with facilities as platform, chairs and easily removable ornamentation.
The City of San Javier has been "spearhead" in the regulation of this type of activity noted the mayor, José Miguel Luengo thanked the collaboration of Costas and the Autonomous Community.
The director of the Institute of Tourism of the Region of Murcia, Manuel Fernández Delgado highlighted the work carried out by the City of San Javier for the diversification and deseasonalization of tourism and announced that contacts have already been established with the rest of the coastal municipalities of the Region. Extrapolate the initiative.
The Head of the Demarcation of Coasts, Francisco Marin said that it is "an example of coordination between the three administrations to get legally compatible the different uses of the terrestrial maritime public domain respecting the natural environment."
The businessmen of the sector that attended the official presentation of the Tourism of Weddings in the municipality, mostly of La Manga del Mar Menor, verified the existing demand in this sense coming mostly from Europe and outside the temperate summer.
The mayor of Tourism, Antonio Martinez remarked that "it was necessary to normalize this type of tourism giving legal security to the sector in its relationship with operators and in the programming of their activity."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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