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| Government and hoteliers will continue to study new forms of aid to companies and workers | The Cartagena City Council is working on the opening of a specific office for direct attention to businessmen and workers in the hospitality sector to concentrate information and procedures on aid to the hospitality of the city council and other institutions.

Among the measures that the municipal government will implement immediately is the payment of the water and garbage bills for the establishments closed by order of the health authority, as reported this afternoon by the deputy mayor, Noelia Arroyo after a meeting with the Responsible for Hostecar.In the meeting with the president of the hoteliers, Juan José López, the deputy mayor and head of the Trade Area, Manuel Padín, and the councilors with responsibilities for Business and Tourism, Irene Ruiz and Cristina Pérez, participated.Arroyo explained that he is training a team of workers who will attend the hoteliers in a personalized way from the Development and Employment Agency (ADLE) to inform about the aid and help carry out the necessary procedures to obtain them.“We are asking a great effort from our hoteliers at a time when the sector is in deep crisis.

Our obligation is to work so that companies can reopen as soon as the closure ends and so that hospitality employees and their families can get through this pothole and return to their jobs as soon as possible.

We must do it out of solidarity, but also because the hotel sector is key to our economy as a tourist municipality ”.The president of Hostecar has said that he considers the "direct thread" that his organization has open with the municipal government to be very positive, which has allowed the executive to accept his requests for aid to the sector that can "help alleviate the enormous losses" that are suffering the hospitality of Cartagena.The vice mayor recalled that the Government has decided that it will continue without charging the terraces while the sanitary limitations last and that next year no company will have to pay fees for opening businesses in Cartagena.

"This city council was the first to adopt support measures for SMEs during the confinement and we have been one of the region's city councils that have gone the furthest in the suppression of occupation rates for public roads for terraces."Today's meeting responds to the commitment acquired with Hostecar in the meeting that the mayor and vice mayor held with the businessmen when the closure of the regional hospitality was known.

Arroyo has said that "the contact between businessmen and the government is permanent and new forms of collaboration continue to be studied."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena