09/21/2020 - 16:46
Clarín.com
Society
In the midst of so much uncertainty, of so many meetings and twists and turns on what the upcoming summer will be like, the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, announced this Monday that
"there is going to be a season"
and the goal is to "have the best possible season."
He said it while announcing the creation of a Municipal Fund for Cultural and Tourist Reactivation of 300 million pesos for the province of Buenos Aires.
"We are going to have news, there is
going to be a season.
We are going to work with all the mayors, not only from the Atlantic Coast, but from all destinations
to have the best possible season
," Kicillof said.
The president formulated this concept during a ceremony held in the city of Chascomús, where he announced the creation of the Municipal Fund for Cultural and Tourist Reactivation.
"Our Province is a tourist and cultural power," declared Kicillof and assured that tourism will be one of the axes of economic reactivation in the province of Buenos Aires.
He explained that since his inauguration a Registry of tourist and cultural places has been launched and a catalog with 10,107 sites, clubs, libraries and other references has been put together, to which each municipality can allocate part of the fund created today.
"They are a source of wealth and employment, they provide work, generate profitability and were off the radar," he reflected.
The doubts about the summer season had arisen from the provincial government itself, when the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, questioned it without the presence of a vaccine.
"What is going to happen with the summer season? It is unimaginable that if we do not have a vaccine, hundreds of thousands of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires suburbs would go to the coast. They would carry the disease in a massive way," Gollán warned.
As a result, the largest municipalities on the Atlantic Coast presented different protocols to provide security for tourists.
However, the questions about how it will be carried out are still a real unknown.
"We need an answer now, we cannot wait any longer, we are all dead economically. We are past mid-September and it is not known what will happen with the season. The only thing we ask the government of Axel Kicillof is to reconsider the protocols to be able to start working in hotels and restaurants, "Avedis Sahakian, head of the Mar del Plata Hotel Business Association, told Clarín.
"At this rate we do not see a solution, there is no plan, and the truth is that the health infrastructure of Mar del Plata does not support patients from the surrounding cities. It is sad to see the city like this, to top it off ... Everything closed, shutters down, all for sale, "he added.
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