TAPA TRAIL IN ORIHUELA

Tapas Trail. Ruta de las Tapas.
From December 6th Orihuela has started its Ruta de las Tapas. This event, as appears in the press releases made by Councillor Abadía, is funded by the Town Hall and our ruling party PP with the amount of 25,000 .- €.
Los Verdes, The Greens, want to question the promotion this event has received and receives, where again we see the mismanagement of the PP.
An event of this type is designed to encourage citizens to go out, to attract new customers to bars and restaurants and simultaneously increase local retail sales.
But what a surprise we had when we went to the tourist office in Playa Flamenca: They have no informationa about it. Neither the list of bars who do partecipate. The employee was very kind and called the tourist office in Orihuela city: They also do not have any information. They had to take
off the list of bars partecipants of the press. Searching the internet we find the presentation and pictures of Councillor Abadía, with a little luck the list but not the announced map. On the website of the "Oficina de Promoción Comerial de Orihuela” (Office for Promotion of Orihuela Commerce)
the Ruta de las Tapas is not mentioned at all. It is mentioned from the 10th on, means 5 days after the start of it.
The tarjet of this type of event is not only that the citizen goes to the bar next door to have a drink and a tapa for only 2 €, but also to attract residents and tourists from the coast and other cities to visit Orihuela premises and to do their Christmas shopping in the city's businesses. But adresses such as “in front of Lidl” or “in front of children’s school” or “Los andenes” when the correct street name in the map is “Avda. de Teodomiro” clearly shows that it is only made for those who do know Orihuela and best would be if nobody else shows up.
Recently, the PP has invited coastal residents with free transportation to a purely PP event, letting them think that it was a pre-Christmas event organized by the Town Hall. So they could declare to the press that "many supporters of the PP have come from the coast."
For the Ruta de las Tapas it would have been a good idea to offer as well a free transport between the coast and the city at least for some days and publicize the event and the transport properly.
As usual the existence of almost 30,000 citizens of the municipality living on the coast is completely ignored, as well as the many tourists staying in these dates. The complete lack of any advertising in the coastline, where one third of the population of Orihuela lives, makes it clear that the Councillor Abadía with his many “asesores” (consultants), all paid with our tax money, do not have the capacity to carry out their work with the due profesionality.