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Innkeepers in Murcia warn that the new acoustic regulation will "sentence death" the offer of restoration of the center (05/04/2018)

"It's a real" blind ", is based on acoustic measurements that are not real and will have two big losers: the citizens and the sector."

This is how the president of Hostemur, Jesús Jiménez, expressed himself about the new regulation on noise that the City of Murcia is about to approve for the urban center.

Among other measures will involve the reduction of the hours of installation of terraces, leading to reduce in some areas up to 75% the number of tables.

"This will entail a drastic decrease in the activity of the premises and, unfortunately, the infeasibility of some of them," Jiménez said, explaining that the granting of new opening licenses in the area will also be completely eliminated.

"The main problem is that those responsible for this 'Blindness' have not stopped to think about how it can affect tourism and citizens themselves, which is significantly cut the hospitality offer," says the head of Hostemur, remember that Murcia is a city that bases much of its tourism on the gastronomy and recreation offered by this sector to its citizens.

"Murcians are open people who greatly enjoy their social relationships - and even work - in the environment of bars and restaurants, so that our way of enjoying leisure is seriously threatened," predicts Jiménez, who also warns of hard blow that will suffer such an important sector in the generation of employment.

Unreal measurements

Therefore, from Hostemur -entity with almost 4,000 associates that integrates all associations and professional groups in the hospitality and tourism sector of the Region of Murcia- Murcia City Council is asked to paralyze the final approval of the declaration of zones of special acoustic protection in Murcia center, its delimitation and zonal plans.

"The measurements that are being used calculate the noise created in the environment and the basic noise of the whole area is included, but the duck is paid by the innkeepers, we are the ones who generate employment and many families depend on us", complains Jiménez.

To support their complaints in the absence of accuracy of the measures presented in the municipal report, Hostemur has commissioned a report to a company specializing in sound and acoustic engineering to collate the data presented.

"We have also requested, without success, the measurements of other areas of the city considered to have a high acoustic impact, such as, for example, Gran Vía or Ronda Norte," explains the president of Hostemur.

Bad way

The hoteliers of Murcia are clear that the reduction of noise in the city is necessary, but they emphasize that it has to come from a consensual restructuring of the areas of occupation of public roads for which this regulation is not the appropriate tool.

"We also want the reduction of noise in our city, we are parents, children, brothers, friends, neighbors ... and it is a measure of environmental protection that benefits us all," explains the president of Hostemur, who complains that to write This new regulation created a "Table of Noise" that has not been useful at all.

"We have proposed other corrective measures, such as awareness campaigns, leisure mediating police or acoustic efficiency aids, which at the same time is energy efficiency, but have fallen on deaf ears," critics Murcia hoteliers.

In support of its message Hostemur has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of the problem that is occurring, "because they are going to be the most affected and when they realize everything they have lost they will not be able to do anything" .

A manifesto to which any citizen can be added (https://goo.gl/6tQXDd), information work in social networks or various activities on the street are some of the measures on which this campaign will support.

Source: Hostemur

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