The Gaudí Center, a model for openness in Catalonia of 10 similar centers tourist reception

Reus. Costa Dorada. The Minister for Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, Josep Huguet, visited this past November 30, 2009 the facilities of the Center Gaudí Reus, a installation these past months of June, July and August, 20,305 people visited, this figure represented a 18% increase over the same period last year. In addition, two out of three foreign visitors were mostly Russian and French citizens, thus confirming the Gaudí Center as an outstanding tourist attraction within the overall supply of Reus. In this regard, the Minister Josep Huguet said during his visit to Gaudí Reus Center that the government is running currently ten tourist centers like the Center Gaudí. Huguet praised the Gaudí Center because, he said, is a 'model of tourism for the XXI century'. 'It is a model that spreads like an oil slick because it makes sense to give value to the historical and cultural heritage with modern audiovisual facilities and methods scripted dramatic and theatrical, "Huguet said the councilor. During his visit to Gaudí Center, the minister was accompanied by Josep Huguet councilors and Empar Martina Garcia Pont, the director of the territorial services of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, Àngel Xifré and by Josep M. Xavier Cabré and Valle, representing the Municipal Board of Tourism and Commerce of Reus. Moreover, Josep Huguet said the Intangibles Plan being developed by the Government will include elements of the Camp de Tarragona and Reus anticarlí liberal and the figure of the guerrilla Carrasclet, the Cistercian route or Tarraco Romana. The Plan, the Government will publish shortly, aims to become tourist attractions or historical events of significance in the history of Catalonia, and thus promoting tourism destabilized and decentralized. After the Government issues a few months ago the tourist resources Atlas of Catalonia, where the tourist offer includes existing, soon will come out the Plan of Intangibles. Huguet has explained that, after analyzing the proposals received for inclusion in the Plan, it now is closing and will include spaces both monuments as 'without a physical reference'. The Plan is complemented by the introduction of specialized tourist routes of historical or cultural. 'Intangible The Plan will be a long list, because Catalonia has a rich history and there is much to polish rough diamond, "added Huguet. According to counsel, explaining the intangibles own 'is closely related to foreign tourists, "one of the sectors that want to attract. Plan product segments at different times as the Roman, medieval, rebellious Catalonia or the French War, always linked with elements of popular culture. Moreover, and in relation to the overwhelming complaint voiced by the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda for the cost of energy in their facilities because of the delay in the process of energy deregulation, the Minister Josep Huguet said he knew the concern in the sector but said that in this area, the Catalan Government has no powers, since they depend directly on the central government.

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