The Burgos Chamber of Commerce and Industry It has been the scene of a meeting of businessmen and unions, who trust the economic recovery to tourism that can generate the cultural activity linked to the VIII Centennial Foundation and they believe that they can begin to see its fruits from June.
The president of the Provincial Federation of Hospitality, Fernando de la Varga, has been very optimistic about the beginning of the recovery with the Burgos brand and its Cathedral as a lever. He has referred to the meeting as an “injection of optimism.”
The president of the Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the VIII Centenario Foundation, Antonio Miguel Mendez Pozo, trusts in a “certain improvement” of the health emergency and talks about about a hundred activities and events to take advantage of to relaunch tourism in 2021.
For this, milestones such as the Jacobean Holy Year, the Jubilee Year granted to Burgos, the VIII Centenary of the death of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the VIII Centenary of the birth of Alfonso X, the exhibition of Las Ages of Man, the exit of the Cycling tour of Spain or the projects with which the Fundación VIII Centenario de la Catedral works. Burgos 2021, beyond La Seo; namely: the Camino de Santiago, the Camino del Cid, Atapuerca, the Castilian language, the Consulate of the Sea and the Las Loras Geopark.
Méndez Pozo has transferred the possibility of a national and international projection of Burgos to the Services sector, represented by the hotel industry, local commerce, transport or travel agencies. The provincial secretaries of the UGT and the Workers’ Commissions were also present.
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