Benidorm continues to evolve in the development of measures that will accompany the next steps of lifting restrictions

"The objective of Benidorm is to achieve a safe tourist destination". This was what the mayor of Benidorm has said this morning when he confirmed the start-up of a working group made up of VisitBenidorm, the Ministry of Innovation, Turisme Comunitat Valenciana and the technical team that leads the pilot. For Toni Pérez, the key to the pilot project and the basis of the interest and support it has aroused lies in that it “integrates technology and innovation” and puts them in favor of society for its impact on residents and tourists alike. The PATTI Recovery pilot "optimizes management for economic, social and health recovery, in order to establish the roadmap of the phases of said pilot, bringing together all sides of the prism."

At these times, Pérez pointed out, the pilot continues to evolve in a positive way seeking to provide solutions to the current circumstances of uncertainty generated by the incidence of Covid19 and the government's measures towards the normalization of safe tourist activity.

As announced on April 15, the first phase of the pilot program is already underway, which aims to assess the real contagion situation in a population. For this, Benidorm City Council, through the supervision of the municipal doctor of the Department of Health and the medical teams of the Imed Levante Hospital, has carried out a series of rapid tests on the members of the Local and National police, the Civil Guard, Civil Protection and Volunteers of the #RAC Collective Aid Network who are in the first line of action to detect contagion.

In addition to the evolution of PATTI Recovery pilot project, the Hospital Internacional Clínica Benidorm, also of international reference, is added for the new test. HCB has made all possible means available to the pilot for the immediate attention of workers in the next phase, despite the complexity of the situation.

PATTi Recovery continues to add strong allies to put the successive phases of the project into operation. Visit Benidorm Tourism Foundation is working intensively to create the precise connectivity of the system with the markets involved, both domestic and foreign. In this line of involvement in the pilot project, Hotel Business Association of Benidorm and the Costa Blanca (HOSBEC) has already prepared and processed an extensive battery of measures for possible scenarios for the recovery of tourism activity. And the Business Association of Travel Agencies (AVIBE) will also join the work teams with the general intention of achieving the recovery of the sector in the shortest possible time with the monitoring of the pilot project that Benidorm applies.

The main working group was activated after the presentation of PATTi Recovery pilot to the Minister of Innovation, Carolina Pascual, and the autonomous secretary of Turisme, Francesc Colomer. Both agreed on the need to promote projects that add technology and innovation and that are capable of providing a scorecard and coordination for solving the problem.

After this, as the mayor Toni Pérez has highlighted, “ PATTI Recovery pilot project gathers the voices of all those involved in the mainstreaming of the management of the economic, social and health recovery of Benidorm; and it is scalable and viable for other destinations and places ”.

The next steps to follow are to create concrete uniformity in prevention measures. AndToni Pérez insisted, "is the only way to recover the tourist activity in Benidorm, on which many sectors and countless companies depend".

The Mayor announced that "we are currently setting up different working groups with all those involved in the tourism sector, from accommodation to the distribution channel to accommodate all the needs that arise to have them covered in this pilot."

Finally, Toni Pérez thanked everyone for their involvement: "we can only be grateful and proud of the immense effort that both citizens, in their confinement, and professionals, seeking solutions, are doing in Benidorm."