The mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, together with the Councillor responsible for employment workshops, and the mayors of Internal Affairs and Personnel, and Culture and Tourism, visited today the start of the Workshop on Employment and Training, dedicated to the Local Tourism Promotion and Visitor information to be held this year 2014 and will employ the same time training 19 people.
As explained by Francisco José Tomás Councilman Employment Workshops, "the main objective of the workshop is to train and qualify unemployed territory to promote and market local tourist destinations, tourist information services managing and participating in the creation, marketing and management tourism products and services of the local environment. "
Also added that with the employment workshop on tourism "is expected to obtain a sustainable increase in the number and quality of tourism services provided, enhancing and promoting the local tourism sector and local enterprises that are directly or indirectly related to it . Moreover it is intended that the business opportunities identified in the territory for the unemployed to see real possibilities in the field of employment / self-employment to be enhanced this "take advantage.
For his part, Councillor Personnel and Internal Affairs, Juan Calabuig, stressed the great opportunity of the INFO through this workshop employment, paid training story to the students in it.
"We have an opportunity for significant growth in the tourism sector and it is time to use it," he added Calabuig.
María Dolores Fernández, Councillor for Culture and Tourism, congratulated the participants for coming within the range of the 15 alumni / ae who will benefit from this dual training.
"The important product Jumilla has, but much work ahead when to offer it as tourism," he said, pointing to self-employment as a means of tourism and economic expansion of the village.
The mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez closed the round of speeches, encouraging alumni / ae to strive in training that will allow them to Workshop.
"We hope that this course can serve to extend this offer and we have all these expectations from the point of view of tourism in Jumilla, and I'm sure of it."
In addition, he said the wine as "key projecting outwardly from the tourist point of view."
Evolution and improvement of Employment Workshops
Mixed employment and training program is an evolution of the old programs Schools Workshop and Trade, and Employment Workshops.
It keeps the spirit of these initiatives have been operating in the region 25 years, but are modernized and improved to suit the active employment policies pursued greater efficiency of available resources.
The Ministry of Education, Universities and Employment, through the Regional Employment and Training (SEF), a14 condecía to Jumilla and more municipalities in the region a grant to implement 28 joint actions aimed at employment and training for 338 unemployed acquire a professional qualification with theoretical and practical training of actual work.
The budget is € 220,070.39 of which € 218,701.80 SEF funds and the rest the municipality of Jumilla (€ 1,368.59).
It lasts for 12 months and will be conducted by 40 hours, divided between theory and practice.
It is composed of 15 student workers, of which nine are women (60%) and six men (40%), a coordinator, a trainer / a tourist and a trainer / to English.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla