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Leoncio Collado socialist councilor has called today's "death blow" to tourism in the municipality the 53% cut in the Autonomous Region intends to conduct a tourism consortium budgets Lorca Taller del Tiempo in 2010.
Collado reported that the Socialists were opposed to this proposal yesterday, which was approved with the votes in favor of PP and that will also be a cut of 35% of the staff of the consortium.
Specifically, Collado said that seven of its twenty employees lose their jobs in the coming weeks and only be 13 workers on the payroll of the nearly 50 that had Lorca Taller del Tiempo when he began his career more than a decade.
The cuts will affect, among others, the areas of administrative management, cleaning, maintenance, entertainment, museum staff and prevent the continued work on the recovery of native tree species in the surroundings of the Castle.
The socialist mayor also denounced the removal of the resources allocated to new investment and maintenance of the Fortaleza del Sol that has grown from 300,000 euros in 2009 to zero for this exercise.
Collado said the consortium "will not even have money to change a light bulb when it is formed" and warned of the quality of tourism in the city will be lowered very significantly, which will negatively affect rates of visitors.
In this sense, also reported that in 2009 the turnover of Lorca Taller del Tiempo fell 7% and the decline in visitors fell more than 3% and just over 80,000 compared to half a million visitors to Cartagena and Murcia.
Collins described the data of "abysmal" and "disappointing" and blamed the director of the Department, Pedro Alberto Cruz, "attempting to dismantle the" Lorca's tourism for the benefit of the other two big cities of the region.
Leoncio Collado also said that the work of promoting the City of the Sun are "ridiculous" and they are putting into play the Declaration of International Tourist Interest Easter Lorca "cost so much effort to achieve."
The PSOE Councillor lamented that "not being being able to fill the hotels or to sell all the chairs in the big week Lorca" and that those responsible for local promotion "does not fall short."
In that sense demanded that greater advocacy role and prevent the recurrence of events such as occurred last year when it agreed to be in FITUR Lorca "in the corridors outside two degrees below zero."
Collado said that both the PSOE and the tourism and hospitality sector of town feel "devastated" but demanded that Lorca did not "succumb" to the negligence of counsel, which he said deserves to be stopped immediately, so he asked the mayor of PP Francisco Jodar, that "fist on the table" and do not let this "infamous offense."
Collins asked the City to meet with industry professionals to "make common front, to exploit the wealth of ideas offered by highly qualified professionals Lorca and allow the survival of tourism in Lorca is an indispensable engine for economic diversification to which can not play. "
Source: PSOE Lorca
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