The Managing Entity DTI Benidorm, the first public management model to implement Smart Sustainable Governance in the DTI Network

The members of the Management Entity of the Smart Tourist Destination (EGDTI) of Benidorm have committed to promoting data-sharing spaces, as determined at the last meeting of the body held on Wednesday. These data come from different perspectives, to have those obtained by the Tourism and Visit Benidorm offices, the Sustainability Observatory (Dinapsis) or those of sectoral and employer associations such as Hosbec, Aptur, Aico, Abreca, Cobreca or Adestic.

This will make it possible to optimize the use of the Smart Office DTI infrastructures and the current technological solutions already implemented and certified. To this will be added all those new functionalities that the future platform approved in Red.es and that is already in the adjudication phase will contribute.

This new strategy will allow Benidorm to continue leading from the Smart Office DTI the crossing of data from both the destination, tourists and companies in the tourism sector.

All this information, together with the means assigned by the City Council, allows the intervention capacity of the different public and private actors to be optimized, as well as making quality data available to users.

Data that has already been shown during Covid'19, and in the current recovery of the tourism sector, a great utility in decision-making and in being able to feed new business models based on the data economy. An effort was made by all the members of the management body and their respective areas when establish common work rules that improve efficiency when it comes to achieving the new objectives.

At the meeting, it was also made clear that the lessons learned during the Covid 19 health crisis represent an opportunity to continue leading the digital transformation and sustainability of a safer, more competitive tourism model for companies that improve the experience of tourists and residents.

In this sense, it was also revealed that the certification of Benidorm as the first Smart tourist destination has been one of the main reasons for the Government of Spain to announce last Friday, in the words of Minister Reyes Maroto, the launch of the National Center Tourist Intelligence in Benidorm.

The meeting also discussed how the projects are progressing in the 'Territorial Lab' of Historical Heritage,  Avenida del Mediterráneo,  Levante and Poniente beaches and the Tourism Sustainability Plan in Destination 'Benidorm DTI+ Seguro', as well as the recent incorporation from Benidorm to the sports tourism working group of the Red DTI.