The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig , has assured that he does not consider the tourist season lost since, although he is aware that "it will be difficult" due to the ravages of the health crisis, the Valencian Community is a "safe" destination that will "to compete" . The head of the Consell has offered a press conference at the Alicante-Elche airport, the fifth in Spain with 15 million passengers in 2019, in his first visit to the Alicante province since the state of alarm was decreed in mid-March due to the covic-19 (coronavirus) health crisis.
"This season is not lost, it will be difficult but we are going to compete because we have an extraordinary tourist and hotel plant ," stressed Puig, who trusted that from July 1 we can work with international operators for the arrival of visitors. to a Email Data territory, Valencia, that "guarantees security . " "Here there are safe and dignified vacations, those that citizens deserve ," Puig stressed, in the first post-covid joint event with the Government delegate in the Community, Gloria Calero , in an event together with the director of the Alicante airport, Laura Navarro , and the provincial president of the Red Cross, Francisco Galvañ , among others.
Asked about the pilot program that will advance the arrival of 6,000 German tourists to the Balearic Islands to next Monday, he said that the Generalitat is also considering it with other countries, although in the Community the main market is the British and the main objective is to recover a some normality "as soon as possible" . In any case, he has described EU mobility protocols as a priority to ensure "safe" transfers as soon as possible and always, he has reiterated, that health measures are complied with to be "extraordinarily prudent . "
He praised the spirit of "consensus" observed in last week's meeting with local corporations and hoped that "political interference in this dialogue" does not arise so that reconstruction after the coronavirus is a success. He has insisted on the position of prudence led by his Government in the de-escalation process to "enter into the best disposition in phase 3" and has pointed out that the health data of recent days are "extraordinarily positive .