The Government Council of Castilla-La Mancha discussed on Wednesday the possibility of modifying the Puy du Fou Project of Singular Interest, approved in 2018, in response to the company’s request to begin the construction phases. construction of hotels in the vicinity of the parksomething that had already been talked about in the city and had caused divisions in the city’s business sector.
On this subject, the spokesperson of Izquierda Unida in the City Hall, Txema Fernandezcriticized ABC for the fact that the Community Council “is now changing the rules of the game, in the middle of the game” and said that this decision demonstrates “what we have been denouncing for years, that it would not bring wealth to Toledo, only to the owner of the park. “Since the inauguration of the theme park, we have understood that this facility could be the responsibility of the economic activity of the city and we still do not understand how a business structure that creates unfair competition continues to be promoted, given the public aid it has received directly or bonuses, to the rest of the economic fabric of small businesses in the city,” such as the “million dollar” bonuses from the City Hall to the Construction, Infrastructure and Works Tax.
Fernández also regretted the working conditions of the workers and, in this sense, recalled that a few days ago the general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, had asked the management of the park “to open a negotiating table in which the “fundamental issues for the workers” of the park after detecting “abuses” in the working conditions.
From the Board of Directors, its first vice-president of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, José Luis Martínez Guijarro, revealed on Wednesday that the innovations of Puy du Fou PSI would be addressed to study the company’s approach to start the construction phases of hotels in the surroundings of the park. “It was something that was initially planned, but now we have to start to make these innovations of the PSI a reality,” he assured.
For his part, the mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velazquez, clarified this Thursday that the changes to launch the initiative depend on the regional government, although he said that his government is open to different possibilities regarding the future construction of hotels in the Puy du Fou region because “no one doubts that this The park has been very positive for the city. “We are open to exploring different possibilities to meet this very important demand, it is a demand that generates more demand”, but he recalled that “the city has complications in urban planning” that make it more difficult to adapt hotel spaces to its environment. reality as a city, referring to the fact that there is still no municipal urban plan.
Regarding the park, he said it “has continued to grow,” with 1.2 million visitors currently and is expected to reach 3 million.
Last year, the director of the Puy du Fou theme park in Spain, ERwanda of Villeonasked Toledo hoteliers to invest and build more hotel beds, as the availability of beds in the regional capital is too low to accommodate all the visitors who pass through the park’s facilities.
