The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, detailed today in Ourense how the Government of Pedro Sánchez bets on making Galicia “the best country to visit” with the investment of almost €200M in recent years to transform the tourism sector and modernize destinations in the Community. Pedro Blanco explained that this investment adds the transfers to the Xunta and the investments of the Ministry of Industry and thanked the collaboration and institutional loyalty to the other administrations involved to consolidate the recovery of tourism in Galicia and advance its environmental, sustainable and digital transformation. He did so during the presentation of the Thermal Tourism Plan of the Xunta for this year in an act in which he was accompanied by the subdelegate of the Government in Ourense, Eladio Santos.
The delegate meant that these investments benefit one of every two municipalities in Galicia through the Tourism Sustainability Plans, an initiative that the Government of Spain launched after the pandemic, in 2020.
Since then, this initiative allows 43 tourist areas of Galicia to be part of this modernization, which adds direct investments over the territory and also in local tourism companies.
Thermal tourism
Pedro Blanco stressed that, within the framework of this great transformation, the Government places thermalism as a reference. The objective is to turn thermal tourism into a more sustainable and integrated experience in the territory, and to help, in parallel, the economic and social dynamization of these areas, most of them rural and affected by the phenomenon of depopulation.
The delegate pointed out that in recent years the Government, through the Secretary of State for Tourism of the Ministry of Industry, approved investments worth 13 million euros in thermal tourism in Galicia. This investment is included in the program ‘Galicia reference thermal destination’, which is executed by the Xunta de Galicia with 10.5 million euros of funds from the Government Recovery Plan.
In addition, in collaboration with the FEMP, we are currently working on the transformation of tourism in the Thermal Villas Network, ensuring that these areas become sustainable and competitive destinations in the global environment. Four Galician thermal villas host the pilot project of this modernization plan.