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The socialist candidate for mayor of Lorca, Manuel Soler, said today that one of the priorities of the municipal government will "make a unique tourist destination Lorca and quality."
Soler, in his first public appearance at the local headquarters of the Socialist Party, made the statements after meeting the Government's intention to abolish regional consortium Lorca Taller del Tiempo (LTT), the body that until now manages everything related to the tourism sector in the municipality.
Soler said he is not interested in political scuffle or sterile polemics because you realize its time to develop a true alternative to the municipal government that serves to "relaunch Lorca."
He said that will put all its experience in managing "the service of the Lorca and Lorca" and willing to work "together" with his party colleagues and the general public to "set the best possible political project for the municipality."
On the specific issue of tourism, Soler said that in addition to supporting traditional production sectors in the City must turn this option as an opportunity to diversify the local economic model.
Therefore, said work to ensure that this sector has "specific weight" and becomes a generator of employment and wealth.
To Soler, is "imperative" that the future challenges in the sector are addressed "in cooperation and under the continuing collaboration between public and private sectors."
He said his party is working on an ambitious project to promote local tourism and intends to initiate a discussion process with all stakeholders "to allow a segment to make tourism economically viable and sustainable."
Soler said that the revival of local tourism should be linked also to the recovery of cultural, sporting and leisure attractions for visitors in which Lorca "has shown its good performance" and are "essential" to carry the name of Sun City "outside our borders."
He also proposed the need to go for modernization, innovation and creating new products that positively affect the competitiveness of the sector.
To this end, proposed a model based on the empowerment of different segments such as tourism urban, rural, congress, cultural tourism and gastronomy, among others.
Tourist Board
To coordinate all aspects of tourism in the city, Soler said that Lorca would need to have a municipal legal form, as a board, that would bring together stakeholders in local tourism development.
The purposes of this patronage would coordinate and implement activities aimed at increasing tourism demand, manage, promote and encourage the active presence of Lorca in the national and international tourism markets.
The Board would also be responsible for studying problems of the city tour taking steps to solve, to develop studies to find tourism resources Lorca, attracting visitors, to collaborate with public and private entities in promoting the city , to urge authorities and competent bodies dealing with economic concerts for campaign finance tourism promotion and marketing, to contribute to the protection of tourism resources and socio-cultural values of Lorca and municipal facilities and equipment to manage interest resort to Lorca.
It would also be responsible for developing a Plan to Promote and Tissue Excellence Hotelier Lorca, to encourage new businesses and training resources for professionals in all levels of the sector.
Religious tourism
On different segments, Manuel Soler said that the value of Holy Week is "priority" and "irreplaceable" and deserves "every effort" by the local administration for their empowerment and external promotion "that must be coordinated with different brotherhoods. "
The socialist candidate for mayor was in favor of that Easter lorquina maintain its uniqueness unchanged.
He also assured that Easter lorquina and all that flows around it, especially museums of embroidery, "should be the flagship of the local tourism."
Rural Tourism
With regard to tourism, the socialist politician particularly affected by the great prospects of some councils so far have not had enough support to "take off."
He spoke of wine tourism and the need to foster the creation of artisan wineries in the districts high Lorca.
Soler said that the quality and prestige of the wines Lorca "is booming" and that the Highlands are an ideal space for the development of a wine museum, or activities like wine tasting courses, cycling or wine therapy, among other interesting proposals .
The thread said that this area of town needed "urgently" the implementation of policies and investments resulting in economic and social salutary for its inhabitants.
In the same vein Lorca said the field has enough interest to which alone could present an attractive stretch to the farmhouse.
Opted for a tourism model based on farm houses and cottages where they could reproduce typical tasks of old mills, grain mills, traditional farms, small gardens, now called green-grazing or collection of a small scale.
Therefore, proposed conducting a detailed study to offer package tours to routes where the user not only enjoy the use of a house but also of the various activities that are practiced in the field by farmers and ranchers.
He said that such everyday actions and simple in rural areas as a traditional killing Lorca, contemplating raising the goose Murcia race, known in situ field work and enjoy the garden or local produce, "may become an interesting boost for local tourism. "
In the same vein Soler said the importance of working in the direction of creating an ethnographic museum "in which to recover customs, traditions and folk arts that are the essence of our history."
Environmental Tourism
Soler also referred to the importance of implementing tourism projects in the environmental field.
For example he referred to could be developed in the environment of rivers Luchena, Velez and Marsh Turrilla and Bridges.
The PSOE candidate opted for Lorca and offer visitors the chance to enjoy interpretive nature walks as a way "to make a healthy, respectful and pleasant to the care of our natural environment and knowledge of the different ecosystems."
Soler said that adequate environmental education can transform other sectors, such as leisure and tourism "in an environmentally friendly product and an economic support for our rural community."
To run the project Manuel Soler pledged to seek the necessary funding through European funds, the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, and the region.
Cultural Tourism
Soler said the huge heritage in the old, with the widest representation of the Baroque Murciano "offers the possibility of creating a museum open to integrate the former collegiate church, City Hall, the future artisan district, the porch of San Antonio and towers of the medieval wall, the granary, the old jail, courts, palaces or the Conservatory. This is "vital" to draw up an "ambitious" plan to revitalize the historic center, as the socialist candidate.
The socialist political bet on "redirect" the tourism project Lorca Taller del Tiempo and the Fortress of the Sun has a tourism potential "untapped in all its possibilities."
Business tourism
Lorca has a great potential in the tourism conference, according to Soler.
In fact, the municipality has the largest selection of hotels in the area, to be completed with the launch of the Parador de Turismo next year.
Therefore, Soler said that the construction of an auditorium-Palacio de Congresos is "an economic, cultural and social-class" that should be complemented with a cultural program "varied, evocative and original."
Regarding the audience, Soler expressed the opposite view the location in the Garden of the Wheel, "because it is a green area that should be respected and that infrastructure needs excellent access these features."
Culinary tourism
Another unquestionable power of the municipality is its cuisine, which could become the perfect complement to the Cultural Tourism and the Rural.
Soler opted to promote the use in local restaurants typically Lorca products such as vegetables, fruits, native pig or goat flat Murcia Murcia-Granada.
Sun and beach tourism
Manuel Soler was convinced that the coast Lorca can be a great potential for tourism in our county, applying the relevant measures.
In this regard, said that "we still have the possibility to order our coast, with more than 9 miles from unspoilt beaches, so" sustainable "compared to other municipalities in the region.
He spoke for example of the incorporation of the Natural Park "Lomo de Vas" as a waterfront park design and adapting the access routes to beaches impossible to visit today.
He said this would allow "a product of a unique attraction in the tourist zone" and "should be pampered like the treasure it is."
Source: PSOE Lorca
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