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The secretary general of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, José María Bernabé, participated in a ceremony held at the UCAM to mark the World Tourism Day
San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia has joined the celebrations of World Tourism Day with the act entitled 'Tourism and Water.
Protecting our Common Future 'theme chosen by the World Tourism Organization to commemorate this date.
The ceremony was General Secretary intervened Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, José María Bernabé, the director of Training Spanish Tourism Quality Institute, Irene Rodriguez, spa director of Murcia, Miguel Lloret, and Ginesa Martínez del Vas, Vice Dean UCAM Tourism.
During the talk, experts have made a series of keys on tourism and the influence it has water.
In this sense, José María Bernabé said that "water is not a limiting factor for tourism, although we deficit. Tourism consumes little water."
In addition, he pointed out that in the Region of Murcia "there are many opportunities for the tourism sector. If we want to grow in this area need supply. Here the demand exceeds the resources, so the water we have to come from somewhere, and That is the mission of the National Hydrological Plan ".
The problems created following the creation of golf courses and water consumption has been one of the protagonists, to what Barnabas says that "in no Murcia hundred golf courses, but seventeen surveyed in the field of Segura Basin, ie including the Vega Baja and Alicante, with a demand of only seven cubic hectometers, when desalination plants in the region that have a thirty cubic are producing. "
He added that "there is very misconduct outside the region when accused of that water comes only to tourism uses."
Reducing spending on water within the tourism sector has also been one of the topics discussed during the talk.
Irene Rodriguez stressed "the importance of using savings initiatives and awareness to customers for environmental savings, as well as restaurant workers and hotel, good service as an improved impact on tourism."
For his part, the director of the Spa of Murcia, Miguel Lloret, has made a series of clues that take place in your business to improve the customer experience.
"Health tourism in the Region of Murcia has a significant weight. We have a very important feature: the low incidence of seasonality," says Lloret.
"The national customer problem is that it consumes little, so that strategies may have to go to abroad, a kind of tourist to the crisis has played less."
Committed to Tourism
The UCAM is an affiliate member of the World Tourism Organization, "which shows a clear commitment to sustainable tourism, ethical and socially responsible manner that contributes to economic and social development of this activity in the world," said Yolanda Perdomo, director of Affiliate Members Programme.
Likewise, he added that this affiliation allows academic institution part of a network of over 100 universities, research centers and training schools engaged in research techniques and generation of studies related to the subject.
About the theme for the celebration of World Tourism Day, Yolanda Perdomo said that "tourism has proven to offer sound solutions environmentally as well as political and financial support for the conservation and sustainable use of sources of water. But we must go further. Having reached in 2012 a record one billion international tourists in a single year, it's time to commit to a more sustainable tourism to protect our common future. "
Source: UCAM
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