Trade, tourism and SME policies increase their endowment by 2022, up to 2,932 million euros, as reflected by the State’s general budgets presented today in Congress.
Of this figure, 1,970 million correspond to actions financed through the recovery and resilience mechanism (MRR).
It is 85% of the total.
Specifically, the project will allocate tourism policies 1,727 million euros, of which 1,474 million will come from the European funds for recovery, as collecting the draft law delivered on Wednesday in the Minister of Finance.
From the amount destined to trade, tourism and SMEs policies (depend on the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism that directs Motar Reyes) for next year, 2,305 million euros belong to the non-financial budget and 627 million euros to the financial.
The recovery of tourism is one of the executive’s priorities, since 12% of GDP depends on this sector.
As a consequence of the effects of the pandemic, so far this year, 32.5 million foreign tourists and 27,217 million euros have been lost in international tourism spending, to which the losses of 2020, the worst year for
the sector.
The Government considers that this crisis will require during the coming years “of an extraordinary and continued action by all public powers.”
From this year, it is intended to promote recovery and settle the pillars of a new model through “sustainability, quality, digitalization, intelligent destinations, standards and standards, knowledge and tourist intelligence, digital promotion
, and the recognition and international projection. ”
From the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism “it is going to work, as well, by a recovery of mature destinations, and by a value of the interior destinations,” says the text.
In addition, “the active promotion of our tourist offer will be completed with a commitment determined by the generation of product at the national level and by a differentiation of Spain as a quality destination”.
