The Mayor, Enrique Jimenez, the Directors General of Regional Employment and Training, Ginés Martínez, and the Institute of Tourism, Enrique Ujaldón and Councilman Employment Yecla, Juan Miguel Macho and the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, Maria Dolores Fernandez, attended the presentation of the study to identify job performance in the tourism sector held in the towns of Jumilla and Yecla.
The study, funded by the Regional Employment and Training, with a cost of more than 22,500 euros, has sought to identify the employment generating opportunities within the tourism sector in the region of the Altiplano.
It aims to define concrete actions and tourist activities and short-term viable, linked to the territory and whose implementation does not require major investments or new infrastructure but they can have an almost immediate effect on employment generation.
As stated by the Mayor, Enrique Jimenez, among the main results of the study has identified a total of 60 tourism products in the region, of which 13 has a high potential as a priority tourism products with them have made a total of ten packages with a high potential for viability.
"We have identified a total of 33 direct actions between the two municipalities apart from other indirect, underlying the success of these packages momentum and the establishment of partnerships in the private sector, in addition to the collaboration between different government to have a unity of action with tourism as the basis of success and support private initiative, focusing on the promotion and marketing of the destination ".
Ginés Martínez, said that "this study stems from an agreement of the Local Employment Committees, as the basis of a previous study commissioned these Commissions themselves in different territories," concluding that tourism is the common factor as a source of employment.
This study reflects the perspective of the local dimension of employment, where local committees employment policies adapted to each territory.
Ginés remarked that the Special Committee of the Assembly Jobs also made 16 motions, among which includes a visit to the Local Employment Committees congregate where socio-economic players.
The next step is for the Local Employment Committees to implement the measures that are derived from the findings of the study, specific practices linked to the territory to promote entrepreneurship in tourism-related activities, prioritizing subsidies for actions to be defined.
Enrique Ujaldón, highlighted the growth in job creation in the tourism sector which is already happening, and with these tools is to continue this trend continuing through the creation of companies that are not dependent on seasonality, offering a tourism product diversified quality throughout the year, thus tending hand to entrepreneurs who want to move forward with their projects.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla