For the META Plan, the Association of Municipalities of Almanzora has prepared a joint tourism project for Los Velez.

The Association of Municipalities of Almanzora works with the towns of Los Velez to develop a supraregional tourism project. This will allow them to access funds from General Plan for Sustainable Tourism of Andalusia, promoted by the Ministry of Tourism of Andalucia.

In the first meetings of the Tourism Plan's work group, which was held last week in Olula del Rio with mayors and businessmen, the lines are being drawn. "We have already made a lot of progress because we have done the diagnosis of the previous plans to which were we involved within the General Plan for Sustainable Development of the Board. We presented ourselves up to three more times and never got those funds to Almeria complains Antonio Ramon Salas (President of the Association of Municipalities of Almanzora), who oversees this project in the northern part of the province that will benefit thirty inland municipalities.

This project is very different from previous calls. That is why the agents involved are optimistic. The first, the existence funds. According to Vicente Garcia, the Delegate for Tourism, Almeria, the META Plan has a budget of 717million euros with a horizon 2027. 546 of these are contributions by the Andalusian government and the rest comes from European funds.

They will also present a project that combines the strengths of both regions: the Natural Park of Sierra Maria- Los Velez and the Sierra de Los Filabres. The Marquesado de Los Velez. The City of Culture of Olula. Industrial Tourism.

The General Plan for Sustainable Tourism In Andalusia is a historic opportunity for us. We are not going waste it. "We hope to have our project ready by March, when we will be attending the first lines," Salas says. This is a sustainable tourism initiative that can count on the public funds of the Andalusian government that allows it to generate wealth and employment in the north.