The trips of the Imserso seem to be bewildered, because the implementation of the trips for this season is generating more and more problems. To the fight that the tourist groups that distribute them have are joined by the claims of the hotel sector, which says that in the specifications of the program the cost of the hotel service has not been well calculated.

In a statement, the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations (Cehat), which brings together the main associations of the sector and represents more than 15,000 establishments, has announced that it has appealed to the National Court the specifications of the travel program for adults due to lack of calculation of the cost of the hotel service.

This resource does not stop the implementation of the program. The hoteliers have already resorted to this package when considering that they do not take into account the real cost of the service they provide and because "it rewards in an unsupported, unfair and disproportionate manner the hiring of four-star hotels."

Therefore, they ask that these costs be reviewed and reformulated. At the end of May, the administrative court suspended the tender, but finally the challenge to Cehat's documents was dismissed.

Fight between winners

The trips of the Imserso were definitively awarded last week to the tour operators Mundosenior and Mundiplan. There are 900,000 places and the trips are distributed in three lots depending on the destinations: sun and beach, inland destinations and the islands.

The distribution of Lot 1 (the coast, excluding islands) has been granted to Mundiplan, a group formed by Iberia, IAG7 and Alsa, while lots 2 and 3 (islands and inland tourism, respectively) will be managed by Mundosenior, a group that they integrate Halcón Viajes (Globalia) and Avoris (Barceló).

However, even though they have been distributed, the start of the trips could be delayed by the fight between the two winning groups.

Mundosenior appealed a week ago his exclusion from the bid for lot 1, that of coasts. Now, in response, Mundiplan is likely to resort to the Imserso's decision on the island lot, which Mundosenior had won.

To do so, it has a two-week term since the publication of the final award on August 29. Trips, according to the planned calendar, should start in October.

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