Ibiza opens an 'Attention to Citizens' office

The municipal office is located in the avenida Ignacio Wallis and is just pending the furniture to open its doors.

The municipal workers of the City council of Ibiza will staff the new Service of Attention to Citizens (SAC).

According to confirmed municipal sources yesterday, The office is just waiting for the installation of the necessary furniture to open, which has delayed the opening.

The office will be the first service of these characteristics in Ibiza Town.

This news article was translated and modified from the local leading newspaper www.diariodeibiza.es in spanish.

New Baleària Ferry connects Sant Antonio ( Ibiza ) and Barcelona

Ferry ` Sonia´of Baleària began operating friday 14 of April between Barcelona and Sant Antonio ( Ibiza ). It's a new ship that covers the line between both cities in less than eight hours. The new ship of Balearia has a capacity for 750 passengers, who may travel in armchairs, or in one of the 75 ` Sirena´ or ` Neptuno´ 75 accommodations, with complete bathrooms.

At the moment, ` Sonia´ will carry out six weekly journeys each way and, from the 21st of July and throughout the summer, the ship will make a daily trip both ways. It will leave from the port of Sant Antoni every day at 13.30 hours and will arrive at Barcelona at 21,30. Leaving Barcelona at 23.30 and will arrive at the port of Sant Antoni at 7,30.

Among the facilities on board are a buffet style restaurant, a cafeteria and a bar. The facilities of the ship are also adapted for disabled. The new ship has 111 meters of length. In addition to the automobiles and passengers, it can transport up to 600 linear meters of trucks and trailers.

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Two crew members of a catamaran die off the coast of Girona

There are two survivors and the rescue teams are looking for two missing. The strong wind turned over the catamaran when it was going to the port of Cannes, France.

Two of the six crew of a catamaran that had left from Ibiza on Sunday in the direction Cannes and died yesterday morning when they tried to reach the coast in the locality of Port de la Selva, in Girona, after the strong wind turned over the boat on Sunday night.

The Marine Rescue and the Firemen of the Generalitat de Catalunya (including two helicopters and several boats) searched for the two companions, while the survivors follow the rescue news from the City council of Port de la Selva.

The deceased are Pierre Paulmier and the only woman on board, Brigitte Cat-Rastler, and the missing have been identified like Jacques Planes and Cristophe Catsilli. The survivors are the captain of the boat, Patrick Roullet, and Bruno Gangarossa.

All of them resided in the French region of Toulousse. The catamaran `Accroch coeur´ left last Sunday from Ibiza, where it had arrived from Barcelona as a participants of the North version (that left from Barcelona) of the regata ` Ruta de la Sal´. The crew was formed by six people, five men and one woman, all of them of French nationality. The boat, a model Outremer 45 of 13.7 meters of length, it was rented to make the regatta "Ruta de la Sal".

They could not transmit any S.O.S message since the radio was submerged. Shortly after dawn, the currents drifted the catamaran towards the coast, reason why the four crew tried to swim to land. When they arrived at the beach they crossed mountains of the zone until they were found in two different places by agents of the Local Police.

Rural hotels in Ibiza request publicity support

The Association of Rural Tourism ( agro-tourism ) of Sant Joan petitioned the Consell for a permanent office in the airport.

The Association of Rural Tourism of Sant Joan has directed a letter to the conseller of Tourism of the Consell Insular, Jose Cardona Torres, to solicit aopen all year tourist information office in the airport of Ibiza, with the purpose of offering information throughout to the clients who arrive to the island during the winter season.

These rural hotels expressed their preoccupation because of cases in which
possible clients have arrived at the islandIbiza during the winter and have not been able to obtain any information on its establishments because the office of the Consell Insular was closed.

This office remains open from May to October, but the rest of the year it is closed. The association of Sant Joan proposes that during the winter it opens to the public in a flexible schedule, based on the arrival of the airplanes, and that it is taken care of by students of the School of Tourism, contracted by the Consell.

"We thought that as there is an information office in the port of Ibiza, we should have one in the airport, which informs the public on what is open in winter", stated the president of the Association of Rural Tourism, Antoni Marí Garcia. The spokesman considers that this would contribute to the tourist spreading the time periods of the tourist season.

The Conselor of Tourism, was comprehensive of the request of the association and indicated that his department is working on computers with tourist information by AENA in the airport. However, he assured: .."that the Consell does not have resources to maintain open the office all year".

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