We take care of of our nautical tourism.

The charter nautical in all facets comprises of that national industry of enormous well-known importance like tourism. And the tourism is one of the sources of more important income for the national economy. We must mimar it!

Then, it seems clear that most of the Public Administrations do not think the same or simply they do not find out. They seem not to understand that the nautical one is a significant part of this motor of the national economy. Many we fought so that the nautical one in Spain reaches the true dimension that corresponds to him and that certainly has still not reached. Spain has almost 8,000 km of coasts of great variety and wealth, and therefore a high potential of growth.

But when we spoke of nautical of recreation, generally apparently only we thought about sailing by Ibiza and some Levantinas coasts… Slight error! The variety of coasts in our Spanish Mediterranean is extensive. Atlantic Spain practically offers a unknown dimension and of enormous beauty. How much to discover! We think about France that also has Mediterranean and Atlantic coast. In both ends of the Gallic country it is sailed to top, and not only from Marseilles to Corsica. Quite to the contrary, as soon as the sun leaves between clouds of Britain, thousands of fans put to sea to enjoy the pleasures of navigation. Something unthinkable so far in the coast of the north of Spain, that nevertheless offers fabulous possibilities.

When we spoke of tourism nautical we are speaking of many activities different and not only from the charter from relax, during one week in a sailboat. Also there are hotels that offer nautical activities and that manage to do of the stay unforgettable days, associations or services exist that offer excursions during some hours, rents of boats by a day to cross the coves of the place, regatas between friendly….

And the Administration has MUCH to say and to propose to manage to reach that true dimension that not yet has our tourism nautical. Beginning by the formation. To anybody one escapes to him that to obtain more liking, which we do not have is to complicate the things beginning by the degrees, to complicate a title does not mean to know more and to sail better. If by our security in the sea more in these nautical degrees is demanded, which in truth will be obtained is to reduce to the number of people whom cheer up to give the jump and they score in the academies to become recreation landlords. And if she does not have people with the title are no boats in the water. Badly by the administration. The way is exactly the opposite since they have already demonstrated our neighboring countries.

In France any title does not make lack nautical to sail to candle. And that does not mean that schools of navigation or degrees do not exist outposts. More liking is much and sail better. There is more nautical industry and therefore more wealth, in all the meanings of the word. What there is a “promoted nautical culture” for already several decades by the city councils. In the administrations there is true will to become jumbled and to imply the young people, so that they naveguen and they enjoy the sea. Thus it is since there is to make the things.

The wealth of the tourism nautical comes from all the activity that is generated around to his, and not only of the weekly rent of the boat on the part of the charter company. We take as example a mooring in any navy from Spain. If this belongs to a then perfect individual! His lucky owner usually goes to her one or two weeks to the year, during which he will have dinner in the bar of the port, he will little buy above-water portion of a ship in the store of the corner and more. If a mooring is reserved for charter rents continuously “it will be lived” by different boats that when mooring, will make purchases, will have dinner in the local taverns, and to they will make tourism by the visited zone. The movement that generates this mooring is much greater to the one of a particular mooring, which does not mean that we must “nationalize” the moorings! No. What we must is to promote the creation of necessary moorings, to do possible that during the charter the fans have the possibility of mooring and therefore to contribute to the development of all the tie tourism to the charter.

Well it is known that the boats are more expensive in Spain than in any other European country. And this nonaid! Everything is united. More expensive boats mean less sales, and therefore smaller volume of business, and minor liking to the nautical one of recreation, that as well diminishes the volume of business in the industries associated to the nautical one, like stores, manufacturers of candles, associated companies of above-water portion of a ship, services, factories, docks,…

But far from to fix it, the Administration makes worse the things. One recent modification on the form in which 6º is applied to the fiscality on the boats in list (the one of the charter) has forced to that important companies of charter like Moorings that counted on great bases of boats in Spain have decided to leave our country as destiny nautical in favor of other coasts like Greek, Croatian or the Tunisian.

And it is that there is to recognize it. These countries are much more delivering attack that we to improve its infrastructures, and to offer fiscal facilities for charter companies. We must walk by far eye, because although Spain it offers very interesting destinies, these other countries offer so pretty coasts, if not more, than those of our Mediterranean.

Real Spanish Naval League thinks:

The necessary bet to increase the moorings

He is unquestionable that the tourism nautical comes being a more and more important segment from the tourism. And to speak of tourism nautical is to speak mainly of nautical sport and recreation. The sector of the nautical one sees that countries like Turkey, Greece or the Croatia are becoming destiny of the boats of the coast of the Mediterranean, in clear damage of the Spanish coasts. It is a reality that we are seeing every day: how boats of average and great length, and megayates, are changing their destiny to other Mediterranean countries, where the harbor-sport infrastructure existence great and modern causes that the level of services and competitive and attractive prices is much more that those that in the last years come supplying from ours saturated sport ports.

The improvement of the quality of life and rent in Spain cannot end at other goals that those that we have come verifying in countries like England, the Nordic Germany, France, Countries, etc., where the number of boats by each thousand inhabitants duplicate, and in many cases triples, the Spanish ratios. Luckyly, the time and free capital for leisure of the Spaniards it is increasing day to day, being nautical sport the one of the main destinies of these activities of leisure.

The nautical Commission of tourism of the Real Spanish Naval League (deprived, non-political association and without profit spirit) is not other people's to the tremendous deficit of dockage positions that undergo the nautical one in Spain, that not only is not able to absorb the demand generated by the improvement of the quality of life of the Spaniards, but, in addition, is seeing how boats of medians and great lengths of other countries like Germany, France and especially England, is changing of tendency, choosing as primary port those of Greek, Tunisian, Turkish or Croatian the coast.

In the last meeting of the Commission of tourism of Naval Liga one remembered unanimously indicate his express support so that our coasts are equipped with a notable greater number of dockages, well by the extension of already existing the nautical-sport facilities, as it is the case of several nautical clubs of the shore of the Sea Smaller than they have therefore it solicitd, as well as by the constructions of new and modern tourist-harbor infrastructures, all this considering the sustainability, beneficial for all.

Fº Javier Aragon, Vice-president Ejecutivo of the Nautical Commission of Tourism, RLNE.

We take care of of our tourism nautical

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