Mar Menor’s beach bars demand reduced fees

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Cartagena and Region Hospitality and Tourism Hospitality Entrepreneurs Association (homeowner)He made a request from the City of Murcia.Calculate the occupancy rates of beach bars. The Mar Menor are currently “suffocating their survival”. As the association warned, the owners of these places “are in an extreme state due to the current state of the lagoon, as these positions were auctioned when the lagoon’s condition was better.”

In addition, “despite low tourist demand and decreasing seasonality, these businesses before the agreed time, it is obliged to pay an amount that cannot be met for the accommodation sector”.

As they pointed out from Hostecar, “These facilities, located on the shores of the Mar Menor, even have to change their working hours. dreary tourist panorama, where there is no flow of visitors because of the “. Because of this, many were forced to bet “in the afternoon” or even just be open at night.

Head of Hostecar, Juan Jose Lopez “It is unacceptable that the City Council, without taking into account the complex situation they are in now, is persecuting beach bars and asking them in June to pay their planned wages for September.”

For its part, the City Council provides: “Nothing different from other years, Pandemic and “last year’s concession terms apply.”

The Consistory also wanted to remember that it was “subsidized to the municipal portion of the rate” and that it was this year. “Agreed with Costas to be charged for the active time the beach bar is open.”. They say the aid has been given “under the umbrella of the restrictions of the pandemic that have allowed them to dramatically change the circumstances of the epidemic.” The City Council also emphasized that “direct assistance was allocated to the accommodation sector during the epidemic”. In this sense, he underlined the “million-euro direct aid and exemption from the terrace rate since the beginning of the epidemic”.

Prediction and security

From Hostecar, he also told the City Council “it was necessary to check and deal with the problems created by the macro meetings of the youth every weekend in the Las Dunas area, Cabo de Palos, and on the ground during the previous summer seasons next to the church”. Therefore, they consider it “essential to participate in and offer solutions to the multiple manifestations of local merchants, neighborhood and cultural associations affected every summer by the inaction of the competent public administration”.

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