Antigua informs tour operators Jet2holidays and Tui on safety and security measures
– Tour operators request the meeting, before confirming their tourist bookings, to contrast the headlines promoted on social networks.
– The heads of Tui and Jet2holidays conclude that the destination of Caleta de Fuste is a quality destination in which improvements in security must be coordinated and involve the resorts, resorts, local police and Guardia Civil.
– Antigua will coordinate regular meetings with tour operators, resort and hotel managers, Local Police and Guardia Civil in order to monitor the results of the measures adopted by all parties.
The Mayor of Antigua, Matías Peña, the Councillor for Tourism, Kristina Rodewig and the Deputy Chief Inspector of the Local Police, Domingo Fránquiz, this Friday morning June 6 have held a meeting with those responsible in Fuerteventura of tour operators Jet2holidays and Tui, applicants for the meeting to contrast the security alarm spread on social networks.
After collecting detailed information on security devices, controls and actions especially in the tourist resort of Caleta de Fuste, says the mayor, the tour operators have contrasted that this destination is a quality destination with specific and controlled security incidents, as well as common with those suffered by other tourist resorts. As opposed to the alarm generated in networks, which only brings insecurity, it is the common work that brings security, says the mayor, who announces that from this meeting, the City Council of Antigua will coordinate working meetings in which are present the heads of tour operators, directors of resorts and resorts in addition to the forces and security in order to improve security and assess the outcome of actions taken from the public administration and private entities.
After the meeting, the Chief Deputy Inspector, Domingo Fránquiz has shown the control room from which the last 25 security cameras installed in the tourist resort are monitored, confirming the sharpness of the image of the moment at strategic points known by the agents of the security forces. These cameras will be joined by twenty more in the area before the summer, adding to the nearly two hundred in operation throughout the municipality.
This is the unseen, unspoken work that provides security, concludes the mayor, Matías Peña, a security that requires measures to be taken by all parties, both private and public.
