03/14/2023 15:43 CET
From the Ministry of Social Rights has ensured that the Imserso travel program needs a remodeling. Therefore, its holder Ione Belarra points to the need to be sensitive to the increase in business costs as a result of rising inflation. The program needed for years an important remodeling, with changes in the lots and benefits.
The Council of Ministers will foreseeably authorize this Tuesday, March 14, today, to the Institute for the Elderly and Social Services (IMSERSO) the new tender for trips for the 2023-2024 season with an improved and more diverse offer, once the Government made the decision not to extend the current contract.
Among the most applauded modifications of the new travel plan of the Impressed for 2023-2024 The incorporation of all the provinces and their respective capitals stands out, 34 new ones, until completing the 52. In fact, the offer of the largest possible number of seats will score in the contest.
To be more exact, The new program will be endowed with around 300 million euros, 14% more than in the previous contract, which will allow the number of places to be increased to 900,000, 70,000 more than in the previous campaign.
The Imserso budget for this year has risen 7.5%. The current contract, awarded in September 2021 for the 2021-2022 seasonadmitted two extensions, until concluding in 2024, although both hoteliers and travel agencies they had repeatedly demanded a new contest because they complain that the prices they receive barely cover costs.
For now, have made public their intention to compete in the new Mundiplan tender (a joint venture of Iberia, IAG7 and Alsa), which is already operating for the current season, Ávoris and Soltour (of the Piñero group), a new competitor.
Imserso price increases below the increase in pensions
In fairness, for the new season It is not yet known if the prices of the packages will rise or not, which currently range from 116 to 405 eurosaccording to the destinations and the duration. In no case will the increase be greater than the 8.5% that pensions increased at the beginning of the year (8.5%), according to sources from the Ministry of Social Rights. He user assumes 78% of the real cost of the trip and the State, the remaining 22%.
These are the destinations of Imserso 2023-2024
The traditional coastal and island destinations, which represent 75% of the offer, with 440,000 and 230,000 places respectivelycontinue to be the star of these trips for the elderly. There will also be 10 new cultural circuits, 19 new nature routes, the number of places with a room for individual use will increase (from 2% to 10%) or the registration process will be facilitated.. Let’s see them:
IMSERSO cultural circuits
Andalusia: Cádiz (Jerez de la Frontera and Sanlúcar de Barrameda), Córdoba (Córdoba and Palma del Río), Granada (Albolote and Granada), Jaén (Jaén, La Iruela and Úbeda), Málaga (Benalmádena and Mijas) and Seville (Seville and Sanlucar la Mayor).
Aragon: Huesca (Huesca and Barbastro), Teruel (Albarracín, Mora de Rubielos and Teruel) and Zaragoza.
Asturias: Gijon and Oviedo.
baleares: Palma de Mallorca.
Canary Islands: The Gran Canarian palms.
cantabria: Santander, Santoña, Suances and Torrelavega.
Castilla la Mancha: Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo (Talavera de la Reina).
Castile and Leon: Ávila (Ávila and Barco de Ávila), Burgos (Burgos and Villagonzalo, León, Palencia, Salamanca (Salamanca, Mogarraz and Santa Marta de Tormes), Segovia (Segovia and the Royal Site of San Ildefonso), Soria, Valladolid and Zamora.
Catalonia: Barcelona (Calella and Castelldefels) and Tarragona (Reus and Salou).
Valencian Community: Alicante (Benidorm and Finestrat), Castellón (Peñíscola) and Valencia (Gandía).
Estremadura: Badajoz (Badajoz and Mérida) and Cáceres (Cáceres and Trujillo).
Galicia: A Coruña (A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela), Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra (Sanxenxo and Silleda).
The Rioja: Haro and Logrono.
Madrid: Aranjuez, Pinto and San Lorenzo del Escorial.
Murcia: Águilas and La Manga del Mar Menor.
Navarra: Pamplona and Burguete.
Basque Country: Alava (Laguardia), Guipúzcoa (Eibar, Irún, Oñate and Zarautz) and Vizcaya (Sondika).
IMSERSO nature tourism
Andalusia: Almería (Aguadulce), Cadiz (Sanlúcar de Barrameda), Huelva (Islantilla and Punta Umbria) and Jaén (La Iruela and Villanueva of the Archbishop).
Aragon: Huesca (Barbastro).
Asturias: Gijon.
baleares: Palma de Mallorca.
Canary Islands: Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz).
cantabria: Cabuerniga.
Castilla la Mancha: Albacete (Hellín) and Cuenca.
Castile and Leon: Ávila (Ávila and Barco de Ávila), Salamanca (Mogarraz) and Soria.
Catalonia: Lleida (Pont de Suert).
Valencian Community: Castellón (Peñíscola).
Estremadura: Caceres (Trujillo).
Galicia: Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña).
The Rioja: La Rioja (Haro).
Madrid: San Lorenzo del Escorial.
Basque Country: Guipúzcoa (Zarautz).
To close, it is worth mentioning that The greatest increase in places will take place in the inland tourism lot (up to 212,000), which will have a greater cultural offer and includes innovative proposals such as literary, musical itineraries or theater festivals. With this new arrangement, Social Rights sources understand that the winning companies are going to have to negotiate upwards with the hotelsgiven that higher quality services are required.
In September 2021, the tender for the 2021-2022 season, extendable for two more, was awarded to Mundiplan (a joint venture of Iberia, IAG7 and Alsa), which was awarded lots 1 and 2, corresponding to areas of the peninsular coast and insular, respectively, and Social Tourism (Ávoris), which was left with number 3, inland tourism and European origin.
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