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ISSUE NO. 1756
28 Feb - 6 March 2019
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ATTRACTING more visitors year-round from 11 different European countries is the basis of a new Almeria Provincial Council initiative to boost the provincial tourism sector. The council has put out to tender a €440,000 contract to run a May to November campaign aimed at the British, Scandinavian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Dutch and Portuguese markets. Provincial Tourism Delegate Fernando Gimenez explained the company putting in the successful bid will have to promote the province as an all-round holiday destination, with actions orientated to the characteristics of what the provincial administration identifies as five different market groups. The company will also have to organise excursions and guided visits around different parts of the coast and inland areas. The delegate said the goal is to lure more than 100,000 visitors from the 11 countries this year, with a particular emphasis on expanding tourism outside the peak summer season. Describing the initiative as ‘an important investment,’ he said the council hopes the campaign will encourage people to see Almeria as an ideal holiday destination at any time of year and help change the seasonal nature of tourism in the province, bumping up international visitor numbers and the average length of visitor stays.
GUARDIA CIVIL arrested a woman in Mojacar on suspicion of offering cosmetic treatments without the recognised certification to administer these kinds of procedures in Spain. The detention of the 57year-old UK resident followed last month’s operation Rellenos in Garrucha and the arrest of a Russian woman in connection with reports from two women they had suffered an adverse reaction from injections of hyaluronic acid in the lips. The Guardia suspect the latest woman to be arrested of giving treatments like lip and Botox injections in various locations in Spain over the last decade, prearranging appointments with clients in hotels and beauty salons.
CREDIT: Almeria Provincial Council website
Year-round tourism push
PROMOTION: Expanding tourism outside the peak summer season is one of the main aims of the initiative, said Provincial Tourism Delegate Fernando Gimenez.
Beauty bust CREDIT: Guardia Civil
ARRESTED: When officers located the woman in a Mojacar hotel she was carrying a bag full of items. When officers located the woman in a Mojacar hotel she was carrying a bag containing items related to cosmetic treatments with labels in English and Russian; the bag contents included bottles of Botox and syringes pre-filled with hyaluronic acid. She also had a bunch of consent forms in English for
various different cosmetic treatments. Guardia reported
the woman told them she is a qualified doctor, but said their investigations showed she is not registered with the provincial Official College of Doctors and she had not advised the authorities of her temporary stay in Almeria. They also reported she did not have documentation from a regional Health Department for the medications or to carry them without a prescription.
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