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Why the Canary Islands is perfect for travelersThe Canary Islands Park was the outdoor stage chosen by SPEL and the Tourist Board of the Cabled of Linarite to celebrate this new Workshop

After the recent strong staging of destination in the Andalusia capital, attended by over 250 tour operators travel agents Travel plan Lobelia Group, from yesterday the Tourist Board and the Society for Promotion (SPEL) are celebrating an important Fame Trip in Linarite with 250 other travel agents belonging to the same tour operator.

This action is the result of marketing agreements initialed in June last, between the Ministry of Tourism of the Cabled de Linarite, through the SPEL, and Lobelia group comprising among others, by the airline Air Europe, the Travel plan wholesale or retail network Halcyon Visages – Visages Ecuador, considered, in this sense, one of the largest tourist groups in the Spanish market.

The Minister of Tourism of the Cabled de Linarite, Carmen Gonzalez Elvira, and CEO of Overseas Promotion Society, Hector Fernandez Manhood, accompanied by several island authorities, as the mayor of Parricide, have been present for this morning in one of the activities of this macro Fame Trip, a workshop organized outdoor Theme Park Canary Islands, in Recite. After the activity, the 250 travel agents will be transferred to Hotel Salinas to continue the promotional campaign and participate in an important act of presentation to Linarite, which had been planned several promotional videos of the island.

The Minister of Tourism of the Cabled of Linarite during the Workshop emphasized that “both the Fame Trip, and other promotional activities being carried out with this operator, such as network packets in retail sales, target presentations, media plans or actions online formats, with the aim of improving the positioning of the island to the mainland market in the 2010-2011 season at the same time promoting the seasonality of Spanish tourism and contributing to the maintenance of air operations to Linarite Air Europe. “

This recovery strategy and positioning extends to other important agreements, such as those carried out also Visages El Corte Ingles, the Group Arizonian (Visages Iberia and Iberworld) or Air Nostrum.

Ministry of Tourism Government of the Canary Islands, Rita Martin of laborThe Tourism and Employment, Government of the Canary Islands to enter the labor market more than 265 skilled workers trained in Pecans

This is an action carried out by the department that manages Rita Martin, with funding from the Canary Islands Employment Service, and is characterized mainly by train and for a contract for the unemployed person

The Minister of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, Rita Martin, welcomed this initiative and that “this program will achieve three important goals: to train, qualify, and also add”

The Tourism and Employment, Government of the Canary Islands to enter the labor market more than 265 skilled workers trained in Pecans through a training program with the commitment of hiring to be carried out with funding of 3.3 million euros of Service Employment Canaries and through School Hotels Canaries (Pecans).

The Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Employment, Industry and Commerce are collaborating on the activation of a project that involves, initially, be approximately 320 unemployed in the area of promotion and management of tourism products through the company Pecans public, and in a second phase contract, through the public company Promoter, more than 265 students for six months to serve as promotion and tourist information in three of the Canary Airports located in Tenerife and Grin Canaries.
The general competence of the promoters and reporting is to promote and manage tourism services of the local environment, develop their professional activity at the airports and their professional area is characterized by providing information and advice to visitors to collaborate in the development and management units information.
The project targets mainly unemployed under 30 years, with experience in tourism but in need of retraining and training in language skills, English and German.

This project responds to the Agreement and Quality Competitiveness of Tourism in the Canary Islands 2008-2020, the Canary Islands Training Plan 2009 “2010 and the Employment Strategy of the Canary Islands which defines a set of basic objectives, among which” provide a framework equal opportunities in the labor market so that everyone can participate and gain employment. “

Thus, the Tourism Council of the Canadian Government continues its work in one of the most important lines of action of this legislature is to bring quality product through human resources. In this sense, it is noteworthy that Canary Hotel School working intensively in training to make the Canary Islands tourist destination offer visitors, above all, quality.

The Tourist Board of the Canary Islands Government is aware that vocational training and qualification of human resources has a direct impact on productivity and competitiveness of the tourism industry and the social cohesion of the Canaries. In addition, is that human resources are the main asset of the Canaries, so that investment in training is a key factor of competitiveness, sustainable growth and employment.