\ Through a call for subsidies within the framework of the EU’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
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\ The subsidies are aimed at financing actions for the improvement of competitiveness in the tourism sector addressed to town councils and councils.
The Consell de Govern has agreed to authorize the Councilor of Tourism, Culture and Sports to arrange the expenditure of the call for grants to finance actions for the improvement of competitiveness and adaptation of the territory in the field of tourism, aimed at municipalities and councils.
This line of aid was announced in early November by the president of the Government, Marga Prohens, in the framework of the World Travel Market in London, when she commented that these are “actions aimed at improving our islands as a tourist destination, increasing quality, and deseasonalization”.
These funds, from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), specifically from the package of measures to promote tourism resilience strategies for extrapeninsular territories, will be allocated to lines of subsidies aimed at local entities -town councils and councils- and/or their institutional public sector, and/or the private sector for the purposes established in the tourism resilience strategy and in the improvement of saturated and mature areas through the purchase of tourist accommodation establishments and projects for the regeneration and renaturalization of tourist areas.
The amount allocated to the call is 60,488,033 euros, separated into two projects, one of 44,500,000 euros and the other of 15,988,033 euros. Any local entity wishing to carry out an action on public infrastructures, with special attention to the improvement of the attractiveness of public spaces to promote tourism, environmental management and waste treatment, the promotion of sustainable mobility, as well as the requalification of obsolete tourist infrastructure, may apply for the first item.
The reinforcement of public services in areas of special tourist influence and training linked to the tourism sector will also be subsidized. The creation of incentives to facilitate connectivity and for tourist companies to operate outside the high season and the promotion as a tourist destination of historical and cultural interest will also be taken into account.
The call for subsidies contemplates a maximum of five applications per local entity and a maximum of ten million Euros to be granted.
Improvement of mature areas
The second action program has also been presented, aimed at the improvement of saturated and mature areas through the purchase of tourist accommodation establishments; regeneration and renaturalization projects of tourist areas and incentives for the reduction of obsolete or low quality tourist accommodation places.
The call, which today has passed the first step with the authorization of the Consell de Govern, is scheduled for publication in early December, and will have a deadline for submission of applications until September 30, 2024 or when the available credit is exhausted.
Execution period
The deadline for execution has been set for December 31, 2024, although already executed actions may be presented as long as they are expenses after December 30, 2022.