Throughout this Thursday morning, the House of Culture de Xàbia has hosted Xàbia has hosted the Focus Pyme and Entrepreneurship Marina Alta 2018 conference. An initiative promoted and financed by the Generalitat Valenciana as part of its policy to support entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized businesses and that has been carried out since Creama.
With the assistance of more than 100 people, Focus SME Marina Alta announces alternatives to deseasonalise tourism in the region. The objective of this day has been met with the presentation of alternatives and new projects by entrepreneurs and professionals who seek to take advantage of the benefits of the territory to find a more sustainable tourism that attracts people at any time of the year.
Sports tourism has been one of the outstanding topics that have been discussed in one of the round tables. Different professionals of the sector have exposed their offers. Telmo Leclerq has exposed his personal experience focused on surfing. He set up shop a few years ago in Xàbia with a risky adventure due to the few waves that exist in the area, "But paddelsurfing appeared, a modality in which the navigator uses a shovel to move through the water while standing on a surfboard." Telmo alternates water sports classes according to the season.
On the other hand, Sergio Baudot, manager of the Sol y Mar hotels, participated. "We are committed to cycling since the province of Alicante is the most mountainous 3ª, in weather conditions nobody surpasses us, it has good roads and we believe that we have to improve the offers in accommodation. In addition, the airport of Alicante has to have more direct flights with Europe", said Baudot who added that next year, "The province will be out of the Tour of Spain and three stages."
Jon Hormaexe is a member of the Youth Hostel Jávea, located on Principe de Asturias Street, and explains that in this accommodation, "We host 48 people, the business operates with two brands, one in summer for tourists and one in winter for professionals in remote that only need a computer and an internet line."
From the Pego Excursionist Center, Ximo Sala, said that they have prepared a calendar of activities and another of recovery of paths that unfortunately have left after the fire in the Vall de Gallinera, Vall de Alcalá and Vall de Ebo. "You have a team of brushcutters and chainsaws but the best team are the people for the desire to recover paths that were lost, we replace signals that are thrown into acts of vandalism and we are recovering the place, the caves and the sources", indicates Sala.
Finally, Juan Pablo Signes, of the ACTIVA'T company, spoke about the new APP for City Halls and sports clubs in which a citizen is allowed to reserve a municipal sports court, as well as pay, open and close doors of an installation sports, turn on and off the lights of a track, "It is a way to take advantage of the facilities outside the concierge hours."
Mayor, José Chulvi, has participated in the opening ceremony of this day of learning and debate and has congratulated the organization for putting the focus on the blue economy "An innovative business approach that incorporates in its base shared responsibility and respect for future generations, which seeks to be comxicotetive without affecting the environment and is aware that its economic growth can never be
above social welfare or the environment ".
Alex Pella
The day ended with an inspiring talk by the oceanic sailor Alex Pella. The athlete, who has managed to get all the possible milestones in ocean navigation, has made a tour of his professional career to argue the importance of knowing how to take advantage of opportunities, the value of teamwork as well as the spirit of improvement and the fact of not putting barriers or limits when reaching the personal goals of each one.
Pella has highlighted the ignorance that exists in Spain regarding the sea and the world of sailing, hence his new project, which coincides with the 500 years of the first round the world and which consists of doing the same
travel that made Magallanes and Elcano, implicitly carry an informative action to make known the world of the sea to Spanish society, through history.
