The General Directorate of Tourism has approved the request of the city council for Dénia to be recognized as a Tourist Municipality of the Valencian Community, presented on November 16. A resolution of the Presidency of the Generalitat, of December 30, 2021, makes the recognition effective, which next Tuesday, January 11, the regional secretary for Tourism, Francesc Colomer, will hand over to the mayor and councilor for Tourism of the city, Vicent Grimalt.
The requirements to qualify for the title and the obligations that must be met for its maintenance are contained in Decree 5/2020 of January 10, of the Consell, regulating the statute of Tourist Municipality of the Valencian Community.
The bases on which this recognition is based are sustainability, intelligence in knowledge and management systems, hospitality, code of ethics, appreciation of the territory and landscape, the relevance of culture, signs of identity and tradition. local and the cooperation and participation of local entities and organizations in a new governance model.
To respond to the requests, the tourist population, tourist accommodation and second residence places, the existence of first-rate tourist resources and the economic criterion (the weight of the tourism sector in the local economy) are taken into account.
Recognition as a Tourist Municipality opens the doors to Dénia to new special financing channels to compensate for the economic effort involved in serving the tourist population: preferential attention in the lines of economic development of the Generalitat, infrastructure policies and promotional activities tourism and within the Unconditioned Municipal Cooperation Fund.
With this recognition, Dénia joins Benidorm, Valencia, Gandia, Benicàssim, Cullera, El Campello, Peñíscola and Calp as the ninth Valencian Tourist Municipality.
With the request, the Dénia City Council also presented its Tourism Plan 2021-2024, the roadmap for the next three years focused on criteria such as sustainability, accessibility, competitiveness and training, intelligent management of the destination, marketing and shared governance among the public and private sectors and the entire citizenry, and with the purpose of renewing the tourism model from this new perspective.
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They have discovered America! What a news !!!!! We had not realized that this city we have been since the 70s, an eminently tourist population.