Toni Pérez highlights the union of the tourism and technology industries at the Digital Tourist awards ceremony

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, highlighted yesterday, during the awards ceremony for this edition of the Digital Tourist held yesterday and today in the Assembly Hall of the Town Hall, the union between the tourism and technology industries. The mayor indicated that the congress “•shows that both industries join hands because they need each other and because we are an industry that contributes a lot to wealth”.

Pérez also highlighted in his speech that it is "a privilege" to host the Digital Tourist in times of "change, transformation, recovery and boost to a sector that always needs to move forward".

The mayor also stressed the "obligation" of tourist destinations to ensure that "everyone can intensely live the experience, dream, and inspiration when they come to our destinations. And that is the role that Benidorm has in everything it does”.

The first mayor valued "the great professionalism" of Visit Benidorm Foundation "which guides us and allows us to know, from the public, that we are in the right direction and that everything that is raised in a forum like the Digital Tourist is what arouses our attention and interest”.

Lastly, Toni Pérez asked those attending the forum, administration technicians, business managers, and tourism professionals to "be persevering, to commit to their projects because there will always be someone with responsibilities who will listen to them".

Awarded and categories

As for the winners in this Digital Tourist, in the category of Smart Tourism for inland destinations, the winner was the Demographic Challenge and Sustainable Development Area of Cáceres Provincial Council for its Smart Tourism System project.

In the Tourism Intelligence category for blue tourism, the winner was Libelium for its Water Quality project with buoys.

In Innovation in the Management of Tourist Flows, the Alicante Municipal Tourism and Beach Board received an award for its iON Beach & Island project. The next category, Data Management in DTI, distinguished the Visit Valencia Foundation for its First study on the use of the tourist card and the behavior of buyers. In the category of Improving Universal Tourist Accessibility, the winner was Play & Go Experience for its Park Güell Inclusive Visit project. Tourism and Planning of the Costa del Sol won the prize in the Tourism Sustainability Project category for its 'Zero Footprint Objective on the Costa del Sol'.

Lastly, in the Smart Tourism Node category, the award went to iUrban.es for the Digitization project of the Tourist Offices of the Region of Murcia integrated with its NEXO platform. This recognition was delivered by the mayor of Benidorm.