Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Borrego yesterday promised the help of his department to the City of San Javier in their fight against the seasonal tourist during his meeting with the mayor, José Miguel Luengo and part of his government team at City Hall before a meeting with hotel industry in Santiago de la Ribera.
Seasonally adjusted tourism, work for new niche tourism such as cruise and senior, build a nautical basis to promote sports tourism, boosting emerging new routes such as wedding tourism were some of the issues you raised the mayor Secretary of State who came to San Javier "ready to listen" and gather proposals Land City Council and the business sector "as was done with the Integral Plan of Tourism".
In the meeting he had later with a group of hoteliers in Santiago de la Ribera, Isabel Borrego promised the businessmen and the mayor to study the situation that causes the complaints of the hoteliers and forcing them, by the Demarcation Costas, to withdraw its outdoor terraces for at least one month a year, being temporary facilities.
Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Borrego defended the same interpretation of the rule in Spain, recalling that precisely the reform of the Coastal Act was to facilitate and expand uses, provided they do not harm the environment conservation, the maritime-terrestrial public domain.
Borrego also recalled other steps that have been taken in the fight against seasonal tourist as bonuses on hiring fixed-intermittent workers.
The ITI del Mar Menor will involve the investment of 45 million euros, and the Coastal Act, will be critical to improve tools La Manga, "We have the tools for the conversion of La Manga," said Isabel Borrego who left San Javier with notebook full of requests and feedback from the team of government and from the local hospitality industry.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier