MORE than 10,000 people gathered in Competa to enjoy the 37th edition of the ‘Noche del Vino’ (Night of Wine) and celebrate the famous regional Muscat wine.
Attendees consumed about 500 litres of the sweet wine produced from the Muscat grape which can be found almost exclusively in the Axarquia area. Read more »
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Numerous companies start blogs to better connect with customers (but often through a narcissistic lens). In most cases, Public Relations departments manage social media and blogging for companies which is great for promoting key messages and distributing information. That’s the Push side of PR. But the Pullis often overlooked.
Most corporate blogs are not only boring, but they’re disappointingly difficult to locate on search engines. Key messages, voice and timing are considered, but keywords to drive search traffic are not. Read more »
The Council of Ministers has approved the extension to the Professional Re-qualification Programme (PREPARA). The measure takes retroactive effect from 16 August and will remain in force until 15 February 2013.
The extension was announced by the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, on 14 August, and was subsequently analysed with social stakeholders.
The Vice-President of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, pointed out that the reform of the PREPARA Plan has two objectives: firstly, that no-one without resources be left without State support and secondly, the training and reinsertion into the job market of the unemployed. Read more »
The last month of July, the President of the Spanish Government , Mariano Rajoy, announced that the general rate of VAT will increase (up to now, 18%) three points, up to 21%; the reduced type will increase two points (from 8% to 10%) and the super-reduce type a 4 % will be maintained. Read more »
ALL residents of Spain will be required to contribute to the cost of medical prescriptions, as of last month.
Anyone making less than €18,000 per year will pay up to 40 per cent of the prescription cost, with a monthly cap at €8.
Those earning more than €18,000 will pay half the cost, with a monthly cap at €18.
While the UK will continue to pay Spain an annual cost to provide healthcare for its pensioners, British expats are not exempt from this tax. Read more »
The Junta de Andalucía has asked for IVA/VAT not to be put up on golf courses.
The I.U. Councillor for Tourism and Trade, Rafael Rodríguez, has written to Central Government to complain that the IVA increase is going up from 8% to 21%. Read more »
In Salou for example there are more Russian tourists in the town than the British. They represented 36% of the hotel room occupation in the first half of July. The traditional British tourist no longer occupied 30% of the Salou rooms. Hotel reservations in the town for the first half od July were 458,194, up 3.3% on last year.
Between them the Russians and Britons together make up 80% of the August occupation in the Valencia region, according to the Tourism Councillor, Dolores Johnson. She said Benidorm is expected to reach a 93% accommodation level in August, while Alicante will be 74% and the Castellón coast will be about 70%. Read more »
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