Last Friday, the editorial and photography team of the Swiss magazine Seazen Travel visited Dénia as one of the obligatory stops for a tourist tour of the Valencian Community. The magazine, which with the trip works on a report on the history, culture and gastronomy of the Valencian territory, is a publication specialized in lifestyle and luxury topics, with a circulation of 20.000 copies and a quarterly publication.
This press trip It has been organized by the Spanish Tourist Office of Zurich together with Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, with the collaboration of Visit Valencia and Turismo Dénia.
The program, which ran from October 17 to 21, included visits to monuments, museums, resources and tourism offers in various areas of the Valencian Community. The status of Creative City of Gastronomy by UNESCO makes Dénia an essential destination for inclusion in a presstrip of these characteristics.
On their tour of Dénia, the journalists from the Swiss media visited the Les Freses de Jesús Pobre Winery, to later take a guided tour of Dénia with the help of the Tourism Department, touring the castle, the traditional neighborhood of Baix la Mar, the seafront and other places of interest.
Next, the group was able to taste the native cuisine at the Els Magazinos gastronomic space. In the afternoon they took a maritime excursion through the area of the Cap de Sant Antoni Marine Reserve.
Our representatives in Denia, of both political groups, look at their rear so much with tourism and gastronomy that the rest does not exist.
As always happens, those towns with the most resources end up being the poorest. Unfortunately in Denia there are too many abandoned things and too much institutional neglect that these gentlemen have not been taught. So that? They are not interested either. They do their thing, living on a cap.
Swiss…those so civilized, clean and educated. Let's see if something sticks. Are you going to clean for them? Are they going to modernize the infrastructure for them? Are they going to start managing public money correctly for themselves?
A nice Press Trip or press trip in which some journalists go free (with our tax money) to cool places with the pretext of promoting something.
In this case, the “sustainable tourism of Denia” as our Mayor says…, that is, money for a few hotel businessmen and foreign tour operators of which very little reaches the citizens so that they can live with dignity in a place with the income. lowest in the entire Community and with the highest rents and taxes in Spain.
This is how good management is done Mr Grimalt.
It doesn't surprise me that people leave this third world place governed by a progressive that never looks out for its people.
As is.
These people from such a prestigious magazine with 20 copies (...poor Canfali has more circulation) do not come or appear by magic, they have to be invited.
And I can assure you from my own experience of having collaborated with the sector at the time, that it is neither free nor cheap.
But they're not going to tell us that.
All very chachi piruli, the representatives of luxury tourism and luxury tour operators, gay tourism, conferences, symposiums and audiovisual producers are taught the beautiful, the exclusive, the representative and the most in-house restaurants.
Obviously these people are not interested in the fact that the streets are dirty, that citizen security is poor, that thanks to the tourism boom that they represent, people who are not tourists have nowhere to live, that the poorest in income live in this region. gross per inhabitant of the entire Valencian Community.
This is the price we all pay for this type of tourism and its promotion.
Thank you.
Our representatives in Denia, of both political groups, look at their rear so much with tourism and gastronomy that the rest does not exist.
As always happens, those towns with the most resources end up being the poorest. Unfortunately in Denia there are too many abandoned things and too much institutional neglect that these gentlemen have not been taught. So that? They are not interested either. They do their thing, living on a cap.