Joaquín Buitrago Marhuenda, a lawyer and president of Elche CF since 2019, was a guest of the May meeting of the independent civic platform Elche Piensa held at the Hotel Port Jardín Milenio. a meeting focused on the role first local sports organization as the tourism engine of the city by connecting with one of the priority working axes of the association.
Buitrago announced that LaLiga has set up a department. sports tourismnot to facilitate travel and accommodation hobbies, but also to give them a more complete service in matters such as gastronomy, activities and information about the attractions of the cities visited”. For this reason, he added that those responsible came together at the beginning of the year. LaLiga and Elche with Mayor Carlos Gonzálezand Carlos Mazón, president of Diputación, “examine how institutions can support fan club federationsWho are the organizers of these trips? We have started the work and hopefully we will get results as soon as possible”.
hotel bed deficit
However, the conditions they are not suitable: “There is in the city lack of hotel beds and attractive recreational and cultural offerings for visitors”. In this sense, Buitrago talked about the plans for the Martínez Valero stadium to become a stadium. tourist destination more“I think it’s attractive that you can visit and tour its facilities.” They will contribute to planned reformse.g. to cover the stadium (“because of the sun, not to avoid rain as in the north”) and develop outside.
in favor of Buitrago “go to american modelis not limited to the duration of a match. Is there a before and after the meetingseveral hours of development interesting events and activities for hobbies. This formula will allow visitors to stay for at least a day. “Elche is a touchstone when it comes to attracting tourism to the city,” he said. The main difficulty in implementing this model is “We don’t know the day and time of the matches until three or four weeks ago.This creates organizational problems.
“Desolate panorama” in the environment
At the meeting, Buitrago said, “gloomy appearance” The stadium environment offers, with shopping malls Land used as parking lot “not idling, below” and with no urban solution in sight. He also stressed that the club continues its work. Find a solution to 50% of the bass empty and opening the stadium to other non-sports activities. It also announced that the “soon” sports city project will be introduced.what is something we need”.
At the meeting, Buitrago was asked to open channels to work and encourage cooperation with other local clubs from Elche, as the first sports organization in the city. in projects of common interest.
priority axes
Ester Martínez, president of Elche Piensa, told the guest that sports tourism (with its results) inheritance issue, cultural, environmental, gastronomic, etc.) constitute one of the priority axes. business of the managing organization. In this sense, he offered.tremendous talent on this platform“Working with Elche on this.
Of course, the meeting did not overlook the questions and comments on the subject. unfortunate Centenary season, which resulted in a relegation to the Second Division. Of course, Elche’s desire Back to the top in 2024Of course, a request shared by the president assured him that they would make all their efforts and dedications to make it happen.