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The Tourism Board , an association that represents the most relevant businessmen and professionals in the sector, has called for the "immediate" resignation of the director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies , Fernando Simón, for "celebrating the ruin of a sector that involves more than 12.5% ​​of GDP and 13% of the country's employment. "

This request comes after Simon assured on Monday that it is better that the citizens of Belgium , whose government has recommended not to visit Spain , do not come because it is a "risk that they take away from us." Similarly, it ruled regarding the 14-day quarantine that the United Kingdom has imposed on all its citizens who have been in Spain. "From the health point of view these decisions help us, and it is a risk that they take away from us," he stressed.

"The words spoken by the director of the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies yesterday stating that he is grateful to the countries that have decided not to bring tourists to Spain have deeply outraged the Tourism Board," they said.

Until now, the Tourism Board has been critical of the decisions made by the Government for the revival of tourism, considering them insufficient, but they assure that the epidemiologist's statements "are already totally intolerable."

"We cannot understand how a person who demonstrates this profound ignorance about the economy and the functioning of a country can occupy a political position that all of us Spaniards pay for," said the organization's president, Juan Molas .

At the same time, the Board recalled that, if immediate measures are not taken, the paralysis of tourism may mean the loss of more than 90,000 million euros at the end of September; being able to reach up to 120,000 million euros of losses and the destruction of nearly 1.5 million jobs at the end of 2020.

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