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The City Council studies the future of tourism in Dénia and announces the return of the D*na to the Marineta this year

14 June 2022 - 09: 46

The city's Tourism Council met this Monday at the town hall to address the degree of execution of the Dénia Tourism Plan for the 2021-2024 period and study the new actions to be undertaken taking into account the vision of positioning Dénia as a destination Mediterranean gastronomy of reference both nationally and internationally, as well as reinforcing its leadership as a sun and beach, experiential and nature destination.

The council was chaired by the mayor and councilor for Tourism, Vicent Grimalt, accompanied by the councilors of Territory, Maria Josep Ripoll, Education and Social Welfare, Melani Ivars, and Trade, Sandra Gertrudix, and the head of the Department of Tourism, Pepa Cardona, in charge of breaking down the progress in each of the four lines of action into which the plan is divided.

In terms of tourism governance, support has been given to events through collaboration agreements with associations and entities such as Aehtma, the Puerto Deportivo Marina de Denia or the La Sella Golf Club. Likewise, a newsletter communication channel has been put into operation with the tourism business community and citizen participation channels.

Sustainable and smart destination

In the sustainability and accessibility section, a subsidy of 3 million euros has been obtained within the extraordinary program of the Tourism Sustainability Plan presented in 2021. For this year, and still awaiting resolution, aid has been requested in the program extraordinary Tourism Sustainability Plan (Food and Wine Tourism) and in the “Spain Tourism Experiences” Plan.

Within the third axis, the intelligent management of the destination, the Smart City plan has been approved. As for the Smart Tourist Destination master plan, in the process of being drawn up, during 2022 the self-diagnosis will be updated with the new parameters. Next, the implementation of the actions contemplated in the plan will be carried out.

With regard to competitiveness, improvement and reinforcement of the quality of tourist services, training and employment, the SICTED quality system stands out, which today has 99 member companies, of which 67 have obtained the distinction. From Dénia Tourism continues to work on attracting companies, quality training and proposals for improvement. As for the quality of the beaches, the Qualitur, ISO 9001 and 14001 certificates have been revalidated and the blue flags. Work has also been done to improve the quality of monuments and museums, carrying out the rehabilitation and renovation of the museum offer, and the European project PART-HER has been promoted to revalue cultural heritage. Finally, it has collaborated with the Autonomous Secretary of Tourism in the fight against intrusiveness and unfair competition in the sector.

The D*na Festival returns to Marineta Cassiana

The mayor, Vicent Grimalt, highlighted the importance of public-private collaboration in achieving these objectives, recalling that this year the D*na festival returns to its original location, on the Paseo de la Marineta Cassiana, and will be held on the last days of September and the beginning of October and also that Dénia will be the venue in the month of October. Humanities Festival.

The mayor has also highlighted the University City project, the financing obtained from the Next Generation European funds to equip the Torrecremada house and has announced that financing for the drafting of the project has been requested in the new call for Destination Tourism Sustainability Plans of campus for the development of the studies of the degree of Gastronomic Sciences of the University of Alicante for a value of 1,3 million euros.

Comments
  1. Elizabeth Aragon says:

    I agree with the previous commenter regarding dogs on the beach, I usually go for a walk early in the morning and it is a scandal the number of loose dogs both in the water and in the sand, and if they are warned, the owners respond badly Anyway, this does not happen on other beaches in Andalusia or the North, a shame.

  2. Paloma says:

    In accordance with all of the above, so I do not add anything in terms of the unattended beaches - which are not natural - that we have. And what catches my attention the most is what it says in the article that “””the European project for the revaluation of cultural heritage has been promoted”””!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry, where are those ruins so abundant in the city that they cover up to give building permits to build more and more ugly? Why don't they value themselves to attract other types of tourism, not just sun and beach, and then complain that there are a lot of people in summer? Is this how it is intended to deseasonalize tourism?
    Don't hide that heritage gentlemen! We have the right to enjoy it!
    I do not understand anything!!

  3. Jose says:

    All these purposes are very good, but at this point in the season the buoys that protect bathers from boats are not installed and that is very dangerous, last year on July 19 a boat almost killed me in Punta Negra , the next day they began to wear….
    In all the beaches of other towns they are already set

    • Manuela says:

      Everything is fine, but the truth is I don't know how they give it the blue flag if on June 10 they are not even clean and the fountains without water to wash your feet this in the breezes where there are a considerable number of tourists, we still have no streetlights neither sidewalks for pedestrians, nor recycling containers for plastic or cardboard,

  4. Francisca says:

    All that was organized very well, but first it would take more cleaning, burying all the containers, making the summer cinema of the ambulatory lot, more flowers, more trees, leaving the graffiti artists to paint all the ugly walls, and give shine to the city, EU funds have been received, spend them well if Denia wants to compete with other places, not everything is gastronomy, take care of care and renovation

  5. Luis says:

    Message for Quique Dacosta:
    Recipe suggestion.
    «Sea cucumber» with shrimp from Denia»….The «sea cucumber» can be picked directly on the shore of the beaches. They are full. You can also ask the dog walkers, they will tell you where they are.

  6. IgnacioG says:

    What you want but what about cleaning, maintaining and preventing the beaches from turning into pipicanes? The incivility and filthiness that is allowed on the beaches is terrible, letting people walk their dogs among bathers and children playing on the shore with dogs pissing and shitting right next to them. Is that the tourist destination you want to build? Straight to the Ganges, the unhygienic level is medieval and more than worrying.


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