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Local grants
BENIDORM Town Hall has launched a series of grants to help local business associations to cover expenses.
Nonprofitmaking organisations have until the end of October to apply for subsidies of up to €9,000 to be spent on administration staff, office space rental and utility supplies at sede. benidorm.org.
HOTEL rooms in the future will be ‘smart’ and technological, according to a project launched by the Valencia Region Tourism department and the Hotel Technological Institute (ITH).
The goal is to design a new type of room with all the latest technological advances to improve the experience for customers and make work easier for hotel employees.
The next step will be to choose an establishment in the Valencia Region, possibly Benidorm, to test the pilot project that will then be rolled out in the medium to long term.
Ideas include making rooms more sustainable and energy efficient, enabling guests to control the temperature, lighting and the music to be playing when they arrive on their mobile phones, allowing guests to connect to their Netflix account on the television in their room, and devices to sweep and mop the floors without disturbing guests in other rooms, among other proposals.
An investment of €50,000 has been announced to cover the cost of adapting a room to try out the new systems, with plans to then invite private technology companies to get involved with new ideas.
The grants are aimed at entrepreneurial associations in Benidorm that have a stable establishment or premises, that are currently active and open to the public with set opening hours and which carry out activities to support entrepreneurs and companies in the town. The aim of the scheme is to “help business entities to maintain their staff and thus be able to continue providing support services to entrepreneurs who start or develop their activity in Benidorm,” in the words of local Employment and Local Development councillor Mónica Gómez.
