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Hernandez hoisted the Blue and 'Q' Quality Tourism flags Beach Township Barnuevo

The Minister of Economic, Tourism and Employment Development, Juan Hernandez, expressed the support of the regional government tourism projects is driving the City of San Javier, because "it's transformation initiatives of the municipality, its importance and characteristics They have impact for the region. "

In this regard, he noted, "we remain committed to these projects transforming such an important and strategic sector such as tourism a reality."

Hernandez met with the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, who informed him of the tourism initiatives in which the city works.

After the meeting the head of Tourism and Mayor hoisted the blue flags and 'Q' Quality Tourism Barnuevo beach in Santiago de la Ribera.

With these distinctions, San Javier and has five beaches and blue 'Q' Quality Tourism, the flags of Barnuevo, Columbus and Castillico in Santiago de la Ribera and Mistral and Pedruchillo in La Manga.

Juan Hernandez stressed that these distinctive impact on the importance of tourism excellence as "a higher quality of tourism, more number of visitors and more prosperity for the town and its neighbors."

In this regard, he noted that "we continue to strengthen our offer to increase the arrival of tourists, because we talk about a strategic sector of the regional economy, whose weight we want to increase by 20 percent over the next four years."

A sector on the rise

The Minister of Economic, Tourism and Employment Development noted that "recent data portend a great season," since "we are growing almost six points in tourist arrivals and occupancy rate in hotels compared to the same month of the year Previous ".

In this regard, he noted that "we want this positive trend is translating into greater increase in numbers especially in entry of foreign tourists, with 359,255 tourists in the first six months, seven percent more, where we set a record for a first half, surpassing 2009 figures, and the turnover exceeds 800 million euros, an increase well above the national average ".

In addition, the number of workers registered with Social Security in the hospitality sector scored in the first six months of the year, a record high, with an increase of 5.7 percent in the sectors of hotels and restaurants.

Specifically, in the municipality of San Javier contracts grew in the hotel industry the first six months of the year more than 700 people, 35 percent more than last year.

Source: CARM