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The Socialist councilor Begoña García Retegui sees insufficient that only the Office of the Belluga plaza remains open and accuses the local government of "not positioning the city as a destination in summer", a policy that goes against the merchants and innkeepers of the municipality
We are already in August, which is the month in which in theory more tourists could come to Murcia, but the capital of the Region is not ready to give them an adequate response in terms of information of tourist interest.
Throughout the city there is only one tourist information point that is operational during the eighth month of the year, that of the Cardenal Belluga square, since the Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo avenue stops providing service and those that operated in its day the garden of Floridablanca and in the back of the Romea Theater closed some time ago.
Already last year the company that provides the service warned its four workers of closure by not putting the City Council in motion the extension of the contract or a new offer of hiring after completing the concession of four years of validity.
Twelve months later the situation is repeated due to "starvation of the local government", as García Retegui points out.
Curiously, in 2017 the situation was reversed, because the Tourist Office of Belluga Square was closed and the one on Gran Vía was opened. Later it was announced, after the Governing Board approved the award of the service that Esatur XXI would provide. , that the new contract would avoid that temporary closure, but has not complied with the proposal.
"It is a total tease Ballesta team, which is unable to manage anything minimally well," adds the socialist councilor, who asks the mayor himself and responsible councilor, Jesus Pacheco explanations, to clarify the reasons for the reduction of the service.
The rest of the year the situation is not ideal either, because only the point of Belluga works in the mornings, so that visitors who come to the capital early in the morning are not given much the task of planning their day in a place in which to receive a personalized treatment to know at first hand what is the most interesting thing that they can visit and what timetables they have for it.
This space is open from Monday to Saturday from ten in the morning to seven in the afternoon and on Sundays and holidays from ten to two, while that of the Gran Vía is closed on Sundays and Mondays, while Tuesday to Friday opens only in the afternoon, from five to nine, and on Saturdays, from ten to two.
"We understand that it is not the best way to promote tourism in the city and, undoubtedly, that facilities are not given to those who want to visit us in a month like the one in August in which many people take advantage of their vacations to discover new destinations and Murcia should position itself better than it does ", points out García Retegui, who affirms that" the City Council has a lot to do with this happening in the seventh city of the country "and shows that merchants and hoteliers are being harmed.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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