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“Give him some money, because there is nothing like the pity of being blind in Granada.” Francisco de Icaza Information’s Services in Granada
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The tourist has access to a myriad of information on the web, for it the tourist Once they arrive to Granada the first destinations offer such information contact usually are tourist offices, officers sites (or not) and in different but before reaching its destination languages to improve accessibility to the tourists investigates where it goes traveler. and what is going to find (culture, tradition, monuments, interesting information). For it, they do the simplest and easiest, what they have at their disposal, and that is internet.
Granada as a destination that has many visitors from different countries, the countries of the tourists who visit us more are: Spain, France, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom and Germany. Option to choose different languages on the information web page
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The web pages that use to be more visited according to each country are:
www.andalucia.org www.granadatur.es
http://granadatur.com/fr/
http://www.arukikata.co.jp/city/GRX/spot.html http://www.tripadvisor.jp/Attractions-g187441-ActivitiesGranada_Province_of_Granada_Andalucia.html
http://www.turgranada.es/microsite/ru/ http://www.algranada.com/2013/02/blogpost_10.html#.VH2M1fmG9h4
http://granadatur.com/en/
http://granadatur.com/index.php?id=322 http://www.turgranada.es/de/
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Where to find tourist information apart from the tourist offices? -Hotels or different accommodations.
The tourist information offices are not the only ones that offer tourist information. There are many sources of information that are sometimes not apparent but may serve the traveler in case you can not go to an office. Here are some examples in Granada:
-Provincial Federation of Hotel and Tourism Companies of Granada.
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-Police
-Touroperator.
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-Bar and restaurants.
-El Corte InglĂŠs.
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-Chats.
-People.
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-Taxis.
-Urban buses.
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PURPOSE OF THE TOURIST OFFICES OF GRANADA Junta de Andalucía: - Inform to tourists by phone and web (andalucia.org) - Reception material for subsequent distribution (make in Málaga, brochures) - Update schedules (buses, trains, etc) as well as monuments, hotels and even rental cars and bike. - Organization of cultural events - Realizan statistics
City Hall: -
Inform Community manager (update any data and social networks) Grant permits for the filming of movies in the province Culture calendar (inform on the activities of the city, schedules, if they are free or not ....) - Provide the material to the tour guides The web give information of the congresses (granadatur.com)
County Council: - Basically only informs (of sights, hotels, transport, schedules, etc) both the city and the province of Granada. - Answer emails and letters Daily update of the web (turgranada.es): It is the most visited of the province and the upgrade of social networking takes a tourist to the office.
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They promote activities of sustainable tourism and rural tourism.
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The Provincial Tourism Board of Granada increases the promotion with the same budget. The activities carried out by the county council of Granada is rural tourism and nature (Alpujarra, Sierra Nevada, etc) because this it is an optimized segment. And also it promotes the artistic and cultural heritage of Granada (Alhambra, AlbaicĂn, sight of city center), even, white tourism (Sierra Nevada), active tourism (in the coast and enotourism) and gastronomy.
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City Hall They carry out the promotion of the history of the city of Granada and obviously the artistic heritage as the Alhambra, Generalife and the Albaicin (World Heritage Site). They also do not forget the religious tourism, gastronomy with tapas, flamenco and culture of Granada.
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ALHAMBRA
GENERALIFE.
ALBAICIN.
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TAPAS AND GASTRONOMY
CAVE IN SACROMONTE.
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AND RELIGOIUS TOURISM.
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Junta de AndalucĂa. 1) Tourism office of Andalusia: - There are 6 people in total working in that office. - One of those people is the responsible of the office functions which are to control that the companions make their activities and take care of the accounting. - The remaining 5 people are informers interpreters among its responsibilities are to inform tourists or residents by telephone, via e-mail or over the counter also have to update it in several languages.
2) Municipal Tourism Office of Granada (City hall) - Councillor for Tourism - Technical Director of Tourism - Head of Administration - Translators - Technical tourism - Administrative - Operators - Subaltern - Tourist Informers
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3) Provincial Tourism Office (Provincial de Granada)
- There is a director, but it is absent in that office, he is in the County of Granada; his functions are: management of the provincial patronage, administration, and development planification.
- There are 6 workers in total (they are informers): From Monday to Friday there are 4, and on weekends and holidays there are 2 more workers. Their competences are: tourist information of the province and Andalucia in general and management of the website.
* Of those 6 workers, one of them is the coordinator (but all have the same level / range), He makes the function of spokesman.
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www.andalucia.org www.granadatur.es http://granadatur.com/fr/ http://www.arukikata.co.jp/city/GRX/spot.html http://www.tripadvisor.jp/Attractions-g187441-ActivitiesGranada_Province_of_Granada_Andalucia.html http://www.turgranada.es/microsite/ru/ http://www.algranada.com/2013/02/blogpost_10.html#.VH2M1fmG9h4 http://granadatur.com/en/ http://granadatur.com/index.php?id=322 http://www.turgranada.es/de Google images http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/turismoycomercio http://www.granadatur.com/informationpoint_list/ http://www.granadadirect.com/info/oficinas-turismo-granada/ http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/turismoycomercio/opencms/organig rama/consejeria.html http://www.granada.es/ob2.nsf/in/JFYIQHT/$file/PRESIDENCIA_TURIS MO_0612.pdf http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/haciendayadministracionpublica/clar a/gaaListadoFunciones.html?ciwa=1-S3XA9&idOrg=1-4F-8 http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/turismoycomercio/conse jeria/titular.html http://www.granada.org/inet/wgr.nsf/xtod/77BD06A1F39986E0C125 6E31007BD83D?open&windice=1,2,2 http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/temas/sectores/turismo/sectorturistico.html
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Every city has its charm, Granada has his charm and the charm of all of other cities. Machado
Granada is the most fertile source of inspiration that I have drunk�. M.C. Escher.
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