Vicent Roig is the only one of the mayors of Ibiza who is at the 10th International 10th International Congress of Nightlife Leisurewhich is being held in parallel to the 5th National Congress of the 5th National Congress of Nightlife at the SH Valencia Palace Hotel.
It is that the municipality of Sant Josep has a particular influence in the industry for the concentration in its territory of the most successful entertainment venues in the world.
“For us it is important to be present. They are two important dates and it is good to be where we think as a municipality we should. If something has
Among them, “the best leisure in the world” -says Roig- “that can serve us in some way also as a tractor to teach. We have exchanged some information in this sense with some leisure associations, the best gastronomy of our island, the best coast of our island”.
Therefore, the mayor has remarked that “it is really important this presence because it is important to hear the experiences of other municipalities and also give our experience. Juan Miguel Costa, the island director of Tourism, has also explained perfectly how the best leisure in the world can also be a tractor to make known our gastronomy, our landscape, our culture, our art, our origins, our history, which is many and of great value”.
Contributions to the community
Roig highlighted the contribution of the leisure industry to sporting events, clubs, activities and social entities.
“The leisure premises of our municipality participate in more than one million euros in funding to sports clubs, sporting events, national and international events that pass and also run within our municipality. Something that is important to highlight, highlight and take into account because without that funding would not be possible to have these sporting events at the beginning and end of season that are so key precisely to deseasonalize, “said Roig.
In addition, he stressed that these contributions are also key “for the hotels, for example, in the bay of Portmany, in our part of Cala de Bou, to open in April”.
“There are some of these events, such as the Mountain Bike Tour, which receive large amounts of funding and also attract about 10,000 people to our town and staying between San Josep and Sant Antoni. And for us it is important to be able to maintain that funding because from the administrations it is impossible for us to maintain it,” he warns.
Therefore, the mayor states that “for us leisure is not only nightlife, it is not only leisure itself, but also culture, sports, social services. Because they also finance some of our local associations. It’s a bit of everything. And that is precisely what a destination should be, to be able to be the sum of all and between all of us to make a municipality like San Josep one of the best in the Balearic Islands”.
Security
Roig also explained that during the Congress “we have exchanged topics on security and gender violence“.
“Our Councillor for Social Action has been at some of the talks of Ask for Angela which, let’s remember, is precisely the system that they have had and that they have implemented within leisure to fight against the scourge of gender violence,” she points out.
In addition, he gave as an example the actions of the security of the leisure premises of Playa d’en Bossa that “helped us to extinguish a fire and to evacuate the neighbors of that important fire that we had precisely in the center. And we have also talked about how, for example, that same security staff helped us to assist and applied first aid to a fellow municipal police officer who was assaulted in pursuit of two criminals.
Sant Josep’s offer
“We have 84 kilometers of coastline with 12 beaches right now with surveillance service and maintenance service, which is the part of the coast. We have culture, we have gastronomy, we have archeology, we have art, we have precisely this contest of San Josep Es Foto and all this precisely what we have been exchanging with all those present, “Roig explained to this medium.
