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Benidorm wants to be like Benidorm “more like Bilbao” to be more luxurious. Local merchants want a new limit for licenses for touristic shops, saying that there are numerous souvenirs, food and drinks.
They want a meeting with the local mayor, so that a new law can be introduced on the basis of “necessity and proportionality”. Bilbao in the Spanish motherland has some of the best shops along the “Golden Mile” that Benidorm wants to reproduce. The Independent Association of Benidorm traders says he is very concerned about the spread of new shops for tourism with the sale of food, drinks and souvenirs.
Let’s say they criticized this “stopable growth” that affected settled trade. Benidorm enterprises claim that they are overwhelmed by the continuous opening of touristic shops, which are dedicated to the sale of food products, beverages and all kinds of gifts.
And they say they can’t compete with these small stores that offer their products until the night and early morning hours.
According to AICO, they are typically supermarkets or food stores for tourism that rented space at high prices and spread throughout the city.
The results of the sales report published by the Association every season lead to pessimism about the future.
In July, they had a decrease in sales between 11 and 30%, the worsened figures in August ranged from 31 to 50%.
The Association asked the Municipal Assembly to reorganize business opening under the criteria of “necessity and proportionality” and limited the involvement of more retail organizations such as those described.
The group explains that these new stores reiterate that “the image of the city’s small sector darkened” and the Secretary General Juanjo Camarasa is “lack of political will to encourage local trade”.
AICO, Mayor Toni Pérez’e, hospitality organizations in 2015, the city of Bilbao was unanimously approved.
This regulation was sent to Benidorm Municipal Assembly Member Jordá for trade, but could not get a response.
Now they want a working group urgently to create parameters in order to restrict the number or number to open commercial activities that may damage existing activities.
The above -mentioned working group, which will consist of the municipality, hotel and commercial representatives, will decide to give opening permits in case of general interest in the economic activity of the applicant.
