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Carmela Silva announced the creation of the new award at the conference on “Good practices in tourism management” organised by the Cluster.

The provincial president highlighted the work carried out by the Galicia Tourism Cluster as a link between the sector and public administrations.

Sustainability continues to gain weight in the tourism strategies of the sector and the public administration, as demonstrated by the good progress of the Galicia Destino Sostible Product Club promoted by the Galicia Tourism Cluster with the collaboration of the Galicia Tourism Agency, which now has around 70 members. Now, the Pontevedra Provincial Council has also proposed to recognise the efforts of companies that are committed to this way of understanding tourism through the Pontevedra Province Sustainable Tourism Awards.

The creation of these new awards was announced by the provincial president, Carmela Silva, last Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the conference “Good practices in tourism management” held in Vilagarcía de Arousa by the Cluster. Carmela Silva said that the awards will be presented at next year’s Provincial Tourism Gala and explained that they were created with the aim of “making visible the commitment of companies in the province to sustainability”, recognising the three best proposals promoted by tourism entities linked to the province. “There is nothing that allows us to advance more than seeing examples of success, and there will be no success if we do not commit to a sustainable model,” she said.

The President of the Provincial Council also had words of recognition for the work being carried out by the Cluster: “We must call for dialogue, to work together and together, and to have a common idea. And we can boast that the Tourism Cluster has been able to establish these relationships, both with the sector as a whole and with the public administrations, to promote tourism, this economic activity that creates wealth, employment, and reference to the province of Pontevedra”.