Toni Pérez closes Digital Tourist’2019 highlighting the importance of the tourism and technology binomial and encouraging the fulfillment of the SDGs

After ten discussion tables and then thoroughly analyzing tourist intelligence platforms and systems, Smart Destination Offices and productive data management, the second edition of the Digital Tourist congress has been closed by the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, together with the president of the Smart Cities commission of AMETIC, Adolfo Borrero.

Today, the main theme has revolved around tourism and the 17 objectives that make up the commitment to Sustainable Development, continuators of the Millennium Development Goals.

Heritage and Culture, the interactions between public procurement and tourism innovation and the intelligent management of natural areas have focused today's debates where the experiences of the Alicante MARQ, the municipal company Almería Turística and the actions of the City Council of Salamanca have been treated together with the technological experiences applied by the Xunta de Galicia on the Camino de Santiago.

Announcing that the works presented are available on the AMETIC website (https://ametic.es), Francisco Hortigüela has proposed, as a congress conclusion that “AMETIC advocates a model of intelligent, sustainable, sustained and inclusive tourism through of digitization ”.

He thanked the support of SEGITTUR and the DTI Network, as well as that of the ICEX that this year has brought to Honduras the experience of Honduras, represented by Ana Santos, from Conatel Honduras.

Hortigüela ended up highlighting "the importance of UNE standards" to achieve DTI certification and the work done in this congress with the data economy and its importance.

He concluded by announcing “for the last week of October 2020 the third edition of the Digital Tourist Congress” that will bring together in Benidorm “the greatest national experts in Tourism and Tourism Intelligence”.

And the congress closed the intervention of the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, raising the suitability of “sustainable and sustained tourism based on the efficient use of technology” as a bulwark of the tourism and technology axis.

He thanked the collaboration of SEGITTUR, DTI Network, Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, Innpulso Network and, of course, AMETIC, whom I congratulate “for the organization of the congress, the suitability of the issues discussed at the tables and the quality of the speakers "

He also congratulated the winners last night, pointing out the suitability of these awards that have recognized the coordinator of the DTI Management Body of Benidorm and director of the Tourism Intelligence consultancy, Celia Romero, the Xunta de Galicia, the City of Seville, the Orange phone operator and the Big Data platform for Mabrian Smart Destinations. The mayor celebrated the idea of ​​the figure of the prize “that Benidorm refers to with its skyline, its sea, its sand and its island, as a concept” .-

Toni Pérez ended up encouraging everyone to get fully involved in the fulfillment of the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals, which we can apply to each and every one of our actions in the future. He pointed out especially the number 8, related to employment, “where tourism is the guarantor of 1 of every 11 jobs”, 12, 14, 15 or 6, related to water, “an issue in whose management Benidorm is recognized leader. ”

He concluded by pointing out that in these matters as in Tourism, "we have a lot to do, but also a lot of work done and that we demonstrate in congresses like this."

The mayor closed the congress remembering the importance of Benidorm, the first DTI certified in the world as a generator of happiness.