The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes, has transferred to the new director general of Imserso, María Teresa Sancho, the demands of the hotel sector of the Valencian Community for the 2024-2025 program.
The minister held a meeting with the manager of Imserso, in which the president of the Hotel and Tourism Business Association of the Valencian Community, Hosbec who are based in Benidorm, Fede Fuster, also participated.
Nuria Montes described the meeting as "positive" and explained that the director general of Imserso was "prudent and receptive to listening to all the options and proposals for improvement" for this program, and also "to be able to find within the Government of Spain a location for this program in a department that can better manage its needs".
In this context, the head of Tourism has remarked that "the Imserso program continues to provide a very important task for the elderly in the concept of active old age and sociability", although she has requested a review, already that, according to Montes, "the circumstances that gave rise to this program 40 years ago have now changed a lot, both from the point of view of the major and from the point of view of the tourism and hotel sector".
From Imserso they have conveyed to the councilor that they will continue working on this strategy, although, as explained by Nuria Montes, "the validity of the current execution program and the decision of whether or not any extension will be executed it has not yet been determined, since it depends on many variables", such as the approval of the State's general budgets "because it has a decisive influence on having a budget extension or not".
In addition, Montes has emphasized that the second of the variables "is to assess the consequences that would have, both for users and for the sector, to award an extension to increment 0, which is as planned, while the IPC is well above 3%”.
For the head of Tourism, "this could mean another hole in the difference between the cost of production and the price borne by the Spanish tourism sector that works in the Imserso program", which is why she has reiterated the Council's support for tourism sector of the Valencian Community and has assured that, "from the Generalitat, we will continue to support tourism entrepreneurs".