The municipal group of the Popular Party in the Puerto Lumbreras City Council will take a full motion so that the Lumbreras council request the implementation of various support measures and reactivation of the hospitality sector, one of the most affected by the pandemic of the COVID-19.
It is an important economic engine for our Region, a generator of jobs and wealth as well as a tourist attraction, and a fundamental and essential sector for not only economic development but also for the social development of our municipalities. "From the Popular Municipal Group we have maintained permanent contact with the hospitality associations and have transferred their demands and demands through various parliamentary initiatives aimed at revitalizing this sector, but the involvement of all administrations and the establishment of new lines of collaboration and aid that, added to those already launched by the Regional Government, allow this sector to cushion the hard blow that the pandemic is causing, as their representatives have transmitted to us, "says Councilor Rocío Martinez. On the one hand, the Popular municipal group requests that the Puerto Lumbreras City Council urge the Governing Council of the Region of Murcia to study and take into consideration expanding the maximum credit limit for ITREM- TURISMO SEGURO aid credits of the Reactive strategy Tourism and Hospitality, as well as the study and consideration of developing a campaign to promote safe consumption in hospitality establishments in our Region. The Governing Council is also required to urge the Government of Spain to extend the ERTES until the end of the year, to facilitate the return of the employee / os to the ERTE by hospitality companies due to force majeure when duly justified, and that it is applied reduced VAT for the hotel and catering industry, as other European Union countries have done.
Source: PP Puerto Lumbreras