355 Tourist Use Homes in Valencia have integrated noise control in their accommodation during 2023, and they join the 500 that started the “Werespect” protocol last year, as announced this morning by the president of VIUTUR, Silvia Blasco, in the delivery of the new certifications held this morning at the Valencia Tourism Development Center.
The event, chaired by the Autonomous Secretary of Tourism, Cristina Moreno, also included the head of the College of Estate Administrators of Valencia and Castellón, Sebastián Cucala, and the President of weRespect, Eduardo Suárez Mejuto, who highlighted that the system noise control of the company affiliated with weRespect has made it possible this year to monitor the behavior of more than 650,000 tourists staying in VUTs in Valencia (3 users per day, on average stays of 3 days, in each of the 855 participating establishments with an average annual occupancy of 70%), and resolve the few incidents detected.
Specifically, Suarez Mejuto has highlighted that the system has registered an average of 3.6 alerts per apartment per month, of which 80% were resolved in an average of 25 minutes without the intermediation of the system's night concierge, while the remaining Alerts have been resolved in an average of 30 minutes through the intervention of the night concierge service, without complaints or action by the police.
The Valencia Tourist Housing Association has organized the event as part of the “From Valencia, with Respect” campaign that Turisme and VIUTUR have launched within the Program to promote responsible tourism and the fight against intrusion in tourist accommodation contemplated in the budgets of the Generalitat Valenciana for 2023.
Blasco has encouraged individuals and management companies of Tourist Use Housing to join VIUTUR and support this protocol to demonstrate the frontal rejection of the intrusion of illegal apartments and the commitment to legality and neighborhood coexistence in the regulated sector of Tourist Use Housing. Tourist.
In addition to the promotion of the weRespect protocol in Valencia, the president of VIUTUR has highlighted one of the novelties of this year's campaign, which has been the preparation of a "Manual of Good Practices", aimed at both tourists and individuals and companies. VUT managers, with the aim of improving the guest experience and contributing to the well-being of local communities and the sustainable development of the urban environment.
This protocol, which in addition to Valencia is promoted in other large European tourist capitals such as Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Paris or Lisbon, includes a noise monitoring system installed in tourist apartments that sends alarms to both the user and the manager of the apartment. accommodation every time pre-established sound levels are exceeded, in addition to the support of in-person concierge that acts in cases where the guest does not respond to the alarms, and information material that encourages respect for common spaces and the sustainable management of energy resources .
