Castilla y León, May 3, 2023.- The Government, at the proposal of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism (Mincotur), has approved the distribution of 30,020,000 euros to Castilla y León, corresponding to the third extraordinary call of the program of Tourism Sustainability Plans in Destinations 2023, financed entirely with the Next Generation EU funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
This third call for the Tourism Sustainability Plans in destination has a budget of 478 million euros for all the autonomous communities, which is added to the 660 million dedicated to the same purpose in 2021 and to the 720 million of last year’s edition.
In total, there are already 1,858 million euros destined for the development and implementation of tourism projects, which prioritize environmental sustainability and digitalization with the aim of achieving a more competitive and higher quality tourism.
The agreement approved by the Council of Ministers aims exclusively to authorise the distribution between the autonomous communities of the allotments for spending these budgetary appropriations, as well as their formalisation by 2023.
After this authorization, the Sectoral Conference on Tourism will establish the criteria for the distribution and definitive distribution of funds between the autonomous communities. Once this distribution is agreed, a resolution will be issued by the head of the State Secretariat of Tourism, in which the financial commitments in favor of the autonomies will be formalized.
The criteria used for the distribution proposal are as follows:
- Economic: percentage (%) of tourist GDP in relation to the autonomous GDP. Fall in the affiliation of workers in the tourism sector from December 2019 to December 2020.
- Territorial: percentage (%) of area of each autonomous community with respect to the national area; and population density of each autonomy (Hab/km2).
- Tourist: Number of tourists in the year 2019 and tourist expenditure in 2019.