The president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mazón, has demanded this morning the head of the Consell, Ximo Puig, to defend the interests of the province of Alicante before the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, when mediating with the United Kingdom to that includes the Costa Blanca within its safe tourist corridors.
Currently, the province of Alicante is one of the territories with the lowest cumulative incidence rate of the virus at the national level in the last 14 days (33 cases per 100.000 inhabitants), well below that registered in the Canary Islands (98 cases per 100.000 population).
"These figures show that the Costa Blanca presents a low risk of contagion, and even in many of our municipalities the so-called new normal has already been entered," said Mazón, who has criticized that this favorable situation "is not being taken advantage of by Ximo Puig to promote our tourism sector or to defend our destination before the central government, which is the one who must expose the data to the British government ”.
40% of the tourist market that reaches the Costa Blanca is British
"The inaction of the Generalitat is generating discomfort among professionals in the tourism sector of the province, who during this pandemic year have done their job well, optimizing anti-Covid protocols and implementing new measures to offer tourists a safe destination" , the president lamented.
Along these lines, the head of the Costa Blanca Provincial Tourism Board has spoiled Pedro Sánchez that only the Canary Islands or the Balearic Islands are talked about as safe destinations, “when the province of Alicante is one of the territories that has best controlled the pandemic, without forgetting that 40% of the tourist market that reaches the Costa Blanca is British ”.
According to Carlos Mazón, “it is a constant discriminatory treatment that we have been suffering compared to the island destinations and at the gates of the summer season we cannot let them continue to ignore us or destroy the work of our most important sector and that contributes the most to GDP. autonomic ”.
Finally, the president of the Alicante Provincial Council has endorsed the position of the president of HOSBEC, Toni Mayor, who has shown his displeasure with the Valencian government for “deaf ears to all the messages of economic aid that the sector has launched, which he is at the limit of his endurance ”
