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The plan of hotels of Colau remains
The expansion of restricted areas to new establishments.
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The government of the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, made public last night the definitive map of areas where new hotels and hostels can be made. As the newspaper said Thursday in an interview with the Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Janet Sanz, the Special Urban Tourism Tourist Plan (PEUAT) adds new neighborhoods that were already armored to new tourist beds. Thus, in addition to Ciutat Vella and much of the Eixample, the PEUAT incorporates to the zone 1 the districts of Hostafrancs, Sant Antoni, Poblenou and the Olympic Village. With this new drawing, Colau aims to achieve support for the ERC plan and the CUP. The anti-capitalists have already said that they will abstain, but ERC also demands from the executive a consultation so that the citizenship decides if it is prepared for the city council to stop three large projects that are licensed: the Rec Comptal hotel (already under construction), the Drassanes (200 beds of four stars) and the hostel of the Olympic Village (400 places). It remains to be seen, in a plan that the government intends to submit to a vote next Wednesday, if it incorporates requests from other parties or agents of the sector, such as the employers of tourist apartments or tourist rental platforms.
Unjustified blockages
The Barcelona City Council can regulate tourism, but without creating legal insecurity
That the promoters of what had to be a hotel of the Hyatt chain in the emblematic tower Agbar of Barcelona have thrown the towel alleging the obstacles that the City has put in when granting a license for which they fulfilled the requirements is bad news , And not only because it deprives the city of important and prestigious hotel investment, but because it sends the message that municipal authorities do not guarantee legal certainty.
It is true that the project faced problems of financing and of architectural adequacy that cast doubt on its suitability, since the conversion of the tower into a hotel was problematic - the architect himself, the architect Jean Nouvel, had put an eye to it - and demanded a strong Additional investment. But the fact that a councilor presumed yesterday that the company had been forced to make the decision that they wanted is not reassuring. It indicates that ideology can prevail over the legitimate interests of economic actors.
This app explains everything you see in your step as if it were a tour guide
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The CityMe app aims to change the way they do tourism with their audiocomentaries in the style of the movie Her. We talk to its creator, Guido Schinocca
Publicist Guido Schinocca is the creator of this free application and available at the moment only for Iphones, although they are working on its Android version. Many times he had the feeling that he was missing things from the cities he visited, so he decided to change the way he did tourism. Its intention is that CityMe becomes an essential tool of the tourist, like Airbnb or BlaBlaCar. Jose is the first virtual guide of Madrid, the first city available in the application, although its intention is to have one in the most important sites of the world. The next will be Maite in Barcelona.
If you ask Siri what the result of zero is between zero, kindly, the voice that knows everything, will tell you that division does not make sense, that handing out zero cookies among zero friends is impossible, and that you are very alone in life. So is she. But what if someone created a virtual friend with whom to travel a city and also, you discover all the fashionable places and those that go unnoticed in the eyes of the tourist? Well, there is. The CityMe app has made it a reality and has created a virtual local guide with which to visit all the corners of Madrid: the tavern in which breakfast Lope de Vega or the secret after Malasaña. In the style of Spike Jonze's film, but with a more chaste name, Jose.
Air France-KLM multiplies for more than six hisbenefit
Air France-KLM gained 792 million Euros during 2016, one 571 % more than 118 registered millions one year before, in spite of the negative impact of 289 million Euros for the devaluation of the pound sterling, of the royal Brazilian and of the Chinese yuan.
The president of the air group, Jean-Marc Janaillac, affirmed that these results " are reflection of the initiative and the effort of the employees of the company and the confidence of the clients ".
" Whereas the fall in the oil price has reduced drastically the costs of the group, the geopolitical context, the competition and the oversupply of the industry have led to reducing the unitary income ", has been added by it. Nevertheless, it has emphasized that with the program ' Trust Together '
In the fourth quarter, the air group increased 31 % his net profit, up to 362 million Euros, though it reduced in 2,5 % his turnover, up to 6.086 million Euros.
Madrid received in 2016 more tourists foreign that national
The city of Madrid has beaten during 2016 his tourists' own record. More than nine million persons visited the capital in the last 12 months, which supposes an increase of 1,6 % with regard to 8,8 millions that did it in 2015. The foreign tourists overcame the natives, according to information of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The profitability of the hotels goes off in the periphery of Barcelona
The average price of the hotels of Barcelona continued climbing last year, stimulated especially by the increase of the international demand. The rate for room and day raised 8 %, up to 138,9 Euros, very over the European average, which was 111,8 Euros, according to a report of consulting Magma HC and SRT. The profitability of the establishments also rose, especially in the peripheral neighborhoods and in the metropolitan area, which placed Barcelona as one of the cities of the continent with a major benefit for square.
Rare or very rare hotels
He has spent a few hours in some of the 3,000 hotels he has visited during 30 years of tireless raiding the world. Now, travel journalist Sergi Ramis compiles some of those experiences and gives travelers tips on How to Survive the Worst Hotels, a mixture of manual of hotel recommendations and fun anecdotes compiled by La Viajera Editorial.
Ryanair asks more for autonomy in order that the airport of Valencia grows
The business manager of Ryanair, David O'Brien, thinks that the airport of Valencia has many possibilities of development that are not being taken advantage, because of it he has claimed a major room for maneuver for Quart de Poblet-Manises's facilities. Valencia as a population similar to Dublin but for his airport 6 million passengers spend opposite to 27 millions of the Irish capital, which demonstrates that " still it has a great potential of growth”.
It increases the hotel occupation in the Historical Center of Guadalajara
GUADALAJARA, STRAW HAT (25/ABR/2017) .-From Thursday until Sunday of Holy Week, the hotels of the Historical Center of Guadalajara were to ceiling.
-The occupation of 100 %, which meant 10 % more than the same period of last year, surprised to the Association of Hotels of Straw hat A.C. since it is a behavior different from other years.
-The common thing is that in these dates it lowers the occupation in the hotels of the Center of the city and increases in the beaches.
-For Michael Ángel Fong Gonzalez, the director of the AHJAC these are good news for them about 20 hotel of Center of Guadalajara, which possess about four thousand 500 rooms.
-Always there is thought that the only way of enjoying the vacations of Holy Week is in the beach; lucky, this criterion has gone being modified little by little and the people have realized that to enjoy a great city as Guadalajara in this epoch is very agreeable ".
-On having done a general average of the whole Holy Week, the occupation courted 68 % in the hotels of the center tapatío. This number(figure) also is bigger than that of other years, when there was reached an occupation of six of every 10 rooms.
-For the Week Easter, the occupation was kept in about 50 % in the same zone.
-Something that was observed in this vacation season was that also it raised the number of foreign tourists who visited Guadalajara.
THE NUMBER
-600 million weight it was the economic assessment that was brought in hotel matter during Holy Week.
