2023-08-29 20:39:29
Hotels doomed to close during the low season due to delays in awarding program of vacation for the third age. As of September 15, travel agencies had to start marketing trips for this season, but all atpoint to the fact that the resources will not yet have been resolved by that date. There is a period of ten days to resolve the allegations through administrative channels, after which the judicial way. In the most pessimistic forecasts, the sector considers that until November or December, even January 2024the vacation program will not be awarded.
Leave OUT Mundiplan joined Nautalia, Seniorplan and Autocares Vera when presenting claims to the Central Administrative Court of Contractual Appeals against the award of the Imserso Travel program for the 2023-2024 season. In this way, the three Imserso lots have been appealed, including the one on the coast, which is the one that most affects the Valencian Community. A total of 51 hotels of Community are attached to the program, 28 of them in Benidorm.
From Hosbecthe Benidorm hotel association, was alerted that the delays in the adjudication are causing businessmen to begin to think that fall will bring closures and employment regulation files. Within this framework, the Ministry of Innovation, Industry and Commerce announced a Aid line for hotels of up to three million euroswhich will allow them to maintain employment during the time that the formalization of the contract is delayed.
The last time there were delays in the award of Imserso, It was in the year 2015 precisely because of the resources that were raised between the two competitors. On that occasion the resources were presented in June and on this occasion they have been presented at the end of August. The president of Hosbec, Fat Fusterpointed out that “the deadlines have been so rushed that in the end there has been no margin for these resources to be resolved on time” and did not hesitate to describe as “hat” the entire adjudication process. “We also do not understand the delays so much because what was approved in the end It wasn’t much different from what was already there.”, he assured. From Hosbec it was considered that the stoppage of the program jeopardizes the tourism sector and that there are already establishments that are considering doing EREs and ERTEs when the low season arrives, destroying all the records that have been achieved this summer after the years of the pandemic.
“Without the Imserso program, and without the option of aid that can alleviate the proposed undercosts, hotel managers are proposing early closures in hotels, and even requests for employment regulation files given the uncertainty of the start-up, and without having no guarantee on the rooms previously committed to the program ”, they pointed out from Hosbec.
According to Hosbec, the call has proven to be poorly designedand especially with a late adjudication and of very doubtful legitimacy, having received resources for all the lots.
The hotel management of Benidorm recalled that the total expenditure of IMSERSO tourists in the Community amounted to 77 million euros, and the maintenance of 3,000 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobsas well as an effect on the entire value chain, such as suppliers of products and services, the commercial fabric of hotels, through excursions and cultural visits.
“In the Valencian Community the drag effect is much greater for our economy, and this also adds to the concern of hoteliers, who see how the program is not being implemented, nor is an improvement in economic conditions being considered, and that Today they also do not know when or how they will be able to receive support to the development of the program that they already executed in the first semester of 2023,” he said.
Aid to hotels
The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montesannounced that it has activated the mechanisms to implement a special plan to alleviate the situation caused by the appeals filed against the award of the new Imserso contract by the Government of Spain, “which threaten to delay the implementation of the program “, according to Montes, who until two months ago was the general secretary of Hosbec.
The contribution of the Consell, of up to 3 million euros, will go to the companies attached to the Imserso and will allow them to maintain employment for as long as the formalization of the contract is delayedexplained the minister.
“The Valencian Government will not wait a minute to activate palliative measures in the face of a situation that compromises thousands of jobs in the Valencian Community“, said the minister.
Likewise, it has announced that it will request a “urgent meeting” with the Ministry of Social rights and Agenda 2030responsible for the Imserso program, to “be able to alleviate the consequences that a delay in the program may have on employment and the economy of tourist destinations in the Valencian Community.”
The minister has assured that “the Generalitat is on the side of the hotel sector of the Valencian Community, and of course it wants to support them in the criticism of the disastrous management what the Ministry of Social Rights has done about the Imserso program”. Montes recalled that “in the last four years, since the current heads of the Government of Spain came to power, There have been many nonsense with Imserso, issues that have no explanation and that reveal a complete ignorance of what this program iswhat benefits it generates for Spanish society and, above all, for workers in the hotel sector of tourist destinations”.
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In addition, he stressed that “this includes frozen prices for years that they do not even reach to cover the costs, and that has caused many companies to consider not continuing within the Imserso, endangering the continuity of a necessary program for the deseasonalization and maintenance of employment in tourist destinations in low season ”.
months late
Montes recalled that “the announcement of the resource will surely delay the start-up of this program”, because “It is undoubtedly not going to be put on the market on September 15, as is the traditional date”. “Experience tells us that, quite possibly, we will go to dates close to 2024, when all administrative appeals can be resolved first and judicial appeals later if they are also presented,” he added.
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