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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Flaquer guarantees a greater control of quality on ` all Included´ in Ibiza

"There will be a specific campaign, combined and coordinated between the administrations, that will guard that the benefits are fulfilled that are promised to the client", explained Balearic conseller of Tourism

Laura Ferrer Arambarri conseller of Tourism, Joan Flaquer, initiated yesterday in Ibiza a visit of two days to know the projects tourist in march and to maintain meetings with politicians, industralists and touroperators facing the next tourist season. Representatives of the Pimeef demanded when conseller a greater control of the quality of products and the service that offers the hotels with packages ` all included´in Ibiza. "one has put in knowledge of the association the measures that remembered in the commission experts ` all included´, which goes through a specific campaign, it combines and coordinated between consellerias of Health and Tourism to demand the maximum quality levels of this option", he explained. plus, each Consell can be added to this campaign "since this administration counts on competitions in the matter of tourist inspection". On the other hand, Flaquer announced that in less of a month they will present the specific seal quality for ` all included´. At the moment, the Institute of Tourist Quality of the Govern is working in the requirements of the seal, that still does not have a concrete denomination. Also a decree will start to develop the General tourist Law and that it tries to guarantee to the maximum "the fulfillment of all the benefits that offer to a client of ` all included´in Ibiza, so that there is a correspondence between what appears in the catalogue, and what offers the touroperador and what the client ends up receiving as in quality". The industralists of the Pimeef let Flaquer know of their great preoccupation by this subject since, the last fair of Berlin, the touroperators assured that the supply of ` all included´ has increased and that this increase has been the cause of the height of the reserves after several years of atony. The restauradores ask for a real control on this practice since they consider that many establishments not only reduce business to bars, restaurants and cafeterias, but that, when offering products without mark or of bad quality so that the price leaves are profitable, "contribute that Ibiza gets an image of the very bad destiny, since the client feels swindled". The subject of the highways was not approached in the meeting with the industralists of the Pimeef, although recently they showed his preoccupation by the terms of works, trusting that they are carried out with the greater speed.

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Ibiza : Santa Eulària's Passion of Easter

Santa Eulària in Ibiza celebrates This year the tenth anniversary of the recovery of the processions of Easter, one old tradition that remained interrupted during twenty-five years. The next week, the brotherhoods of Santa Eulalia will recall the Passion and Death of Christ with a series of acts, between which they emphasize the processions of sacred Thursday and Friday. For several months, the Cultural Association Puig de Missa has been working in the organization of a complete program of activities between which they include a concert of music in the Seat of the City council and the representation of the Via Cricis, plus numerous celebrations. The Association has published an informative pamphlet in which the characteristics of each one of the brotherhoods of Santa Eulària in Ibiza are detailed and are some photos of the first religious processions that were celebrated in the locality. Like every year, it is predicted that an invited band participates in the musical support, next to the municipal bands of Santa Eulària and Ibiza. For this reason the Agrupació ArtísticoMusical Carròs, of the Font d´en Carrò of Valencia, will remain during the Easter in Santa Eulària, where also it will offer a concert in the Seat of the City council. _ as be traditional, to the nine at night of the Thursday Saint be predicted that leave of the Chapel of Lurdes (in the street Sant Jaume) the step of Saint Marta and the Christ of the Oration, that in his route until the Puig of Missa be accompany by the penitentes of the rest of cofradias of Saint Eulària and the music of the band of Saint Eulària and Ibiza, the Band Our Lady of the Dolores and the Grouping Musical of The Font d´en Carròs. The holy Friday will be celebrated the Passion of Christ at 18 hours in the Puig de Missa, where it will leave the procession at 20 hours. The liturgical acts will begin Sunday day 9 with the tradiciónal Blessing of Branches and day 14 of April, forty people will stage the Via Cricis Route that will cross the distance that exists between the market and the Puig de Missa.

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Ibiza : The Hippy Market has reopend

The Hippy market Punta Arabi reopens with its multiple supply of alternative aesthetic, perhaps the most veteran and popular market of Ibiza and Formentera, reopened yesterday its symbolic doors after the winter parenthesis to be able to offer to the natives of ibiza and tourists the opportunity to feel like hippies and to recreate later that sensation in the respective places of origin with the aesthetic they bought, more than thirty years later, continues being a alternative to the classic fashion. The salesmen still with some cloths of shelter, just in case, took advantage of the resumption the season to take care of the first clients - many came yesterday to interchange impressions on the trips that have done during the months of professional inactivity. Inactivity only facing the public, because many have spent the winter locked up in their factories making the articles that they sell in summer. Others take advantage of their excursions to different Eastern countries to provide del material that soon are brilliant in the wilder natives nights of ibiza and fashion. Punta Arabi not only has fashion but also decorative articles can be found, toys and infantile clothes and all kinds of complements and imitation jewellery, always with the seal of the original and the alternative things.

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Good start of the season in Ibiza

Joan Flaquer meets today in Ibiza with touroperators and representatives of wholesalers to approach the perspective of the season, "that considers very positive for Ibiza and Formentera", indicated, and to explain to them, among other subjects, the alternatives for the circulation that will be during works of the highways this summer. "one is to make them arrive the measures that are being carried out and the work calendar". Conseller also will attend the meeting with the executive committee of the Foundation for the Tourist Promotion of Ibiza and Formentera. In both days of periplo by the Pitiüses, Flaquer also it has had opportunity to visit the exhibition of the Plan of Excellence of Cala de Bou and to maintain a meeting with the City council of Sant Antoni in which the project of reform of the marine stroll was approached, the advances in the Plan of Excellence as continuation of the one of Cala De Bou and the project of the Nautical Station of Sant Antoni, that will count on the promotional support of the Govern.

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