Tourist industralists about destiny of Intur
The president of the Nicaraguan Camera of the Micro, Small
and Medium Tourist Industry (Cantur), Juan Iván Bugna, expressed
the inconformidad of this sector by the reforms that, at the
request of the Executive, can become to Law 290, specially the
related ones to the articulated one where the Nicaraguan
Institute of Tourism (Intur) would be a dependency of the
Ministry of Public Works and the Economy, Industry and Commerce.
According to the Law of the Reformation and Adición to Law 290,
Law of Organization, Competition and Procedures of the Executive
authority that president Daniel Ortega sent with character of
urgency to the National Assembly, the Intur stops being a being
decentralized under rectoría of the Presidency of the Republic,
to happen to be it of the Mific.
One of the reasons by that the director of Cantur is against
this change is that “the bureaucracy in the Intur will be
duplicated” and the changes are not known with certainty that
this can originate
Incongruencias
Bugna remembered that during the electoral campaign the deputy
Borge Takings, sent by the Sandinista Front, said that “the
tourism is the table of salvation of the Nicaraguan economy”,
but with this reform the government would reduce “the profile of
the Intur”, as diverse industralists consider private who work
in the tourist sector.
In an encounter that the director of the Cantur had with just
designated executive director of the Intur, Mario Salinas Steps,
according to explains Claudia Obregón, spokeswoman of the
Camera, this one was very interested in promoting to micro,
small and medium tourist industralists, through trade and the
access to financing.
Cantur counts on affiliated 14 thousands and has representation
in all the departments of the country. Owners of hotels, of
restaurants and craftsmen grouped in cooperatives are some of
the affiliated ones with Cantur, camera that generates 200
annual million to the economy of Nicaragua, according to
expressed the president of the same one |
