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- For Manuel Padín, "launching the Cartagena brand is to combat the invisibility to which the PP submits us in the world, national and international tourism markets know us, but refuse, prefer to continue hiding, I hope that from May 2019 are not able to continue doing so ".

Cartagena, Wednesday, January 23 -.

Citizens censure the criticism that the candidate for the mayoralty of Cartagena del PP, Noelia Arroyo, has poured on the decision of the City of Cartagena to work on the Costa de Cartagena brand, "a proposal that has had the approval of the Plenary and that supposes the answer to the demands of the hospitality and business sector of the municipality, I believe that Mrs. Arroyo should inform a little before speaking because she has shown an insulting ignorance about the lack of tourism promotion suffered by this territory, largely due to errors and the lurches that the Tourism Department has perpetrated for years ".

Manuel Padín recalls that "when we went ahead to develop the tourist brand of the coast of Cartagena we warned that it was necessary to count on the collaboration of the Community, but with this rejection it becomes an uphill".

Both the regional spokesperson and the mayor of the PP, Carolina Palazón, have underestimated this impulse for tourism in Cartagena and both defend that the only valid mark is the regional one, "Costa Cálida", "but it is of an overwhelming short-sightedness, only they have to walk through the tourism area of ​​the main coastal municipalities of Spain to realize that they all successfully develop their own brands, "explains Padín.

It is really striking the disinterest of the PP in helping the coast of Cartagena to position itself as a tourist destination and to collaborate to create a distinctive image that brings together our singularities (batteries of coast, diving, monumental cultural heritage a few meters from the beaches, competitive festivals ... ) that attracts tourism, complements the regional brand and generates employment and wealth ".

For Manuel Padín, "launch the Cartagena brand is to combat the invisibility to which the PP submits us in the world, national and international tourism markets know us, but refuse, prefer to continue hiding, I hope that from May of 2019 are not able to continue doing so ".

"Every time we bring a motion in which we request the economic collaboration of the Community for the promotion of Cartagena, the local PP obeys regional guidelines and prevents it," laments Manuel Padín, who says that "the popular councilors are not doing any favor to the commerce and the tourism of Cartagena when defending first the interests of its party that those of its municipality ".

According to Manuel Padín, "what the regional spokesperson should explain next Saturday, also the PSOE, is why Cartagena is still excluded from the Integral System of Tourist Quality in Destination (Sicted), keeping us out of the most competitive public tool to improve travel services".

"Since 2015, Cartagena has been condemned not to have the slightest coordination between the institutions and so we continue, and that has meant that the tourism market despite the increase in visits has not taken off for trade," says Manuel Padin who remembers Citizens was the one who rescued the Tourism Advisory Council, after 31 years inactive thanks to the PP, but today has not been launched, not even updated the statutes.

Finally, the spokesman of Cs regretted that "more three years later and six months before the end of the term we still have no news about the necessary strategic plan announced by the PSOE in 2015 to lay the foundations of this sector."

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena