Xàbia’s Tourism Council will finally meet after demands by opposition councillors
The city council will create a management committee for the beaches with businesses, politicians and managers of the services provided in these locations.
Friday 10th December 2021 – CARLOS LÓPEZ with Mike Smith
What is the assessment of the Xàbia tourist campaign? How have the product sectors fared? What is the tourism policy of the local government? Where is Xàbia tourism heading? These are questions that are being asked and have so far not been answered by the government team, despite the opposition parties making repeated requests for information during the last three plenary sessions, the last one by Compromís spokesman Juan Cardona.
Now, these questions may be answered by the Tourism Council, the advisory body that – in theory – should decide on tourism policy but whose activity has been reduced to a minimum for some time now. Far, far from when it was established.
It will finally meet next Tuesday. Such appointments have been scheduled in the last three municipal plenary sessions, demanded by both Compromís and Ciudadanos, but it seems the local government team was turning a deaf ear. Finally, in the last council meeting, Enrique Escrivà (Ciudadanos) suggested that the opposition would force a meeting of the Tourism Council in view of the little interest that the government team seemed to have in doing so.
Now it appears that the threat was not necessary and the Tourism Council will meet at 5.30pm on Tuesday 14th December at the Casa del Cultura. Apart from approving the minutes of the previous meeting which was held in November 2020, the agenda is to include a discussion on the requirement to establish a beach management committee, which has been stipulated by the entity that grants blue flag status to beaches, and which will be formed by those groups which are linked to them.
In addition, an assessment of the 2021 tourist campaign will be discussed as well as assessment of the visits to the Cova Tallada – which has already been published by the governing team of the Parque Natural del Montgó a few weeks ago – and an assessment of the surveillance and maritime services provided by the Cruz Roja.
The agenda also lists a further point “Project of Surveillance and Access to Coves 2022”.
