They were active against the approval of the Law whose repeal decree today the Valencian Consell has sent to Les Corts and today they have gladly attended the event to which they have been summoned at the Palau de la Generalitat. And the employers' associations that bring together hotels, tourist homes and hospitality have taken the floor, at the invitation of the councilor Nuria Montes, to express their satisfaction: "it is the first happy funeral that I have come to," said Fede Fuster, her own successor. Mountains in front of Hosbec.
The president of the Valencian hoteliers recalled that the sector employs 200,000 people and accounts for 15% of the regional GDP, and how the entity he directs organized a successful campaign to defend a sector, tourism, "which some attack out of ignorance." and others do not defend out of cowardice. Fuster thanked him for his support of the CEV and AVE, business organizations whose leaders also attended the event.
On behalf of the owners of homes for tourist use, Miguel Ángel Sotillos has intervened, according to whom 74% of the clients of this type of accommodation are "families with children who would greatly notice any type of extra cost." Manuel Espinal, president of Conhostur, has stated that the hospitality industry did not consider the measure appropriate in the context in which it was taken, and that "the tax was going to affect regulated accommodation while the irregular one escaped, and it was going to affect the residents themselves. Valencians".
President Mazón stressed this last idea in the speech that closed the event, ensuring that "the tax" was not going to affect "those who come from outside, but that a man from Alicante ran the risk of being charged for visit Valencia and vice versa".
The head of the Consell has highlighted that "the Valencian Community will be touristy or it will not be", and has contrasted today's repeal with the pact announced yesterday - without expressly citing it - by the PSOE and JUNTS: "while here today we remove barriers, in Spain some are putting up barriers; while some are emphasizing the policy that distinguishes between those here and those there, between ours and the others, (...) today here we bring people closer, and we provoke cultural encounter , national, also regional, and we remove barriers and impediments to coexistence".
In the introduction to the event, Councilor Nuria Montes showed her personal satisfaction with the measure and defended its necessity so that a sector "that pays more than 4,000 million in taxes" does not lose competitiveness in the international market.
