Imserso's trips for the 2023-2024 season already have a calendar. The trips will begin to be marketed on October 26 in ten autonomous regions and on October 28 in the rest, as announced this Wednesday.
The program has not been without problems this year. In August, Soltour, Mundiplan and Nautalia appealed the tender won by Ávoris, which has been awarded all the lots, but in mid-September their claims were dismissed and the program has continued. Thus, this Wednesday the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (Imserso) began sending letters to pensioners subscribed to the program, with some 4,219 million beneficiaries.
On the first key date, October 26, the sale of trips will begin in the autonomous communities of Aragón, Asturias, Castilla La Mancha, Catalunya, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, La Rioja, Navarra and the Basque Country.
Two days later, on October 28, it will be extended to Andalusia, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Valencian Community, Extremadura, Madrid, Melilla and Murcia.
The idea is that older people can start traveling at the beginning of November, according to the president and CEO of Ávoris, Vicente Fenollar. Reservations for trips to the peninsular and island coasts and inland trips can be made through the Social Tourism website, with the DNI and the accreditation code, or at any of the authorized travel agencies only with the DNI.
The program offers 886,269 places, of which 50% (443,887) are for tourism on the peninsular coast; 26% (230,039) go to the island coasts, and 24% (212,343) go to getaway tourism. Although the first batches maintain figures, in the third the places increase by 70,000 over the previous year.
The trips will incorporate all the provinces, going from 18 to 52, with 10 new cultural circuits, 19 new nature routes (such as Sierra Nevada or the Lobos River Canyon) and an increase in places with a room for individual use (from 2 % to 10%). Another novelty is that more than 1,000 places are reserved for itineraries with literary, musical, theatrical or gastronomic cultural themes in areas of special cultural interest.
The new edition includes a price increase of 7.5%, with a 14% higher budget, of around 300 million euros.
