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| After the closure of the sector decreed more than 15 days ago, hoteliers have requested up to six times to meet with the mayor of Murcia, without success | Hostemur has criticized the attitude towards the hospitality industry of José Ballesta, mayor of Murcia, the largest municipality in the Region of Murcia and the one with the most establishments in this sector.
"We do not understand how the only mayor of the Region is who turns a deaf ear to a sector as strategic as the hotel tourism sector.
It is going to send us to the bottom," says Jesús Jiménez, president of the employer's association, who remembers numerous episodes in recent years in which the mayor has ignored this sector. The most recent has been in recent days.
When the closure of the sector for health reasons was announced more than two weeks ago, Hostemur asked the mayor of Murcia for a meeting to discuss measures to alleviate the extreme situation faced by professionals.
For the employers it is not acceptable that they have been requesting in an extreme and urgent way a meeting, in which issues such as the IBI, municipal and ford rates for the accommodation sector and others for the tourism sector must be discussed. "We have claimed it up to six times, all of them without success.
He ignores us, it is transferred to us that the mayor's agenda is complete, he cannot make room for this delicate situation," explains Jiménez, who does not understand how Ballesta does not he gives due importance to a situation that so seriously affects one of the main economic sectors of his municipality.
The employers do not want to detract from any of the meetings on the mayor's agenda, but they point out that you only have to take a look at their social networks to verify that some of the last weeks could have been postponed.
"Of course, the photo of the meeting would not be as beautiful for the mayor," they point out. Unsupported The hoteliers ask for measures such as the temporary suppression of municipal taxes (garbage, water, etc.), but on the contrary they have found themselves with the collection of the second semester of the occupation of tables and chairs on public land to all establishments of the municipality, including those that have not opened in eight months. "It is shameful and regrettable.
Not only does he not want to talk to us, but he squeezes us into a situation in which we have not been able to work normally in more than half a year.
We expected a forceful gesture and what they have done is to turn to the sector on receipt of tables and chairs being closed and with poor opening prospects ", complains the president of Hostemur, who recalls that in other Murcian municipalities such as Archena, Los Alcázares or Las Torres de Cotillas, among others, the hotel industry is cared for and respected .
"Professionals in the capital are rightly envious of this treatment, which is what it should be everywhere," he says.
Source: HOSTEMUR
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