Next Generation European funds continue to arrive in Catalonia. Last week, the Catalan government announced that it will be managing nearly €53.7 million of these funds, across 17 Catalan tourist destinations – and of a project of the Diputació de Girona.
Among the destinations, Sitges has been awarded €5 million for its Tourism Sustainability Plan. It is the destination that has received the most revenue, along with Calella, Vila-seca and Salou, and it is one of the highest subsidies that the Sitges Town Council has ever received.
The money that the local government will invest is across nine proposals for specific actions, with the aim of strengthening the tourism offer, improving its digitisation and making tourism more sustainable.
One of the projects that receives the most budget – 33% of the funds – is road construction and the development of bike lanes, with the aim of expanding and building sidewalks and creating a connected and safe bicycle network, to ‘encourage walking and cycling, also among tourists and visitors, to reduce emissions’.
Work will also be done with a tourist intelligence and event management system, with the aim of ‘optimising resource management and guaranteeing the satisfaction and safety of visitors and locals’, and with the improvement of accessibility – for example, of beaches, with new access ramps, or the expansion of services for people with reduced mobility – among other proposals.
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