The tourism sector is supporting a united entrance with the taxi drivers of the Costa Blanca, confronted with a scarcity of licenced automobiles, which, in line with the tourism sector, is including to a adverse affect on the world. As such, the taxi drivers are contemplating motion within the New Yr to spotlight the issues.
A scarcity of authorized taxis has been evident in quite a lot of vacationer centric cities corresponding to Benidorm, Elche and Alicante, however the state of affairs has been unimaginable at instances at Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernadez airport, the place a scarcity of authorized taxis has been hampered by these not allowed to select up, the VTC non-public rent sector, and unlawful pirate taxis all including to the problems.
From the lodge affiliation of the Costa Blanca, HOSBEC, its president, Fede Fuster, explains that the present fleet is inadequate and that in cities like Benidorm it’s tough at sure instances to discover a taxi. However they’re particularly involved concerning the scarcity on the Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández airport, the place complaints are multiplying, and Alicante taxis will not be authorised to select up passengers.
The truth is, this lack accounts for between 30 and 40% of the adverse elements of their stays, in line with what vacationers report within the motels’ inside questionnaires.
They’ve transferred the issue to the Ministry, with out having obtained an answer in the meanwhile, says Fuster.
There are additionally no alternate options corresponding to Uber or Cabify, as there are in different communities. It’s not one thing they need to regulate, they are saying. However “what is evident is that measures have to be agreed upon”.
Fuster considers it “absurd” that each the Metropolis Councils and the Generalitat focus a lot effort on attracting vacationers or on requesting the enlargement of airport runways, after they go away “the vacationer who’s already on the door” at their discretion.
In the meantime, taxi drivers in Alicante primarily attribute the issue to occasional or rare pedestrianisation, and to the continual avenue closures within the centre of the capital. An enough service can’t be offered, says the president of Radio Teletaxi, Paco Sánchez, “for causes past our management.”
Added to that is one other drawback, that of VTC’s competitors, although the moratorium already ended greater than a 12 months in the past and its actions are, to say the least, “unlawful,” Sánchez remembers. To not point out the so-called tuk tuk tricycles that “run freely across the metropolis, on account of a authorized loophole that the Metropolis Council has not but resolved,” Sánchez laments.
Because of the mixed frustrations, the taxi associations plan to hold out a survey amongst their members and don’t rule out mobilisations.
