Promotion of the Management of Equipment for Public Use

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The management of public use has extensive experience in Andalusia, covering more than 30 years of uninterrupted work. Previously, the concept of public use had its origin in the field of public mountains and consisted basically in the development of recreational activities of a family nature. An important turning point was the transfer of environmental competences to the Andalusian autonomous community. From the beginning, this has sought the direct relationship between the conservation of natural areas and social development, a concept that already appeared in the explanatory memorandum of Law 2/1989, of 18 July, which approves the inventory of protected natural areas of Andalusia and establishes additional measures for their protection. Under this framework, public use is constituted as an area that compatibilizes and integrates in a synergistic way the social and environmental aspects. Progressively, in addition, it has been necessary to incorporate the field of rural and nature tourism into the management of natural spaces, given the growth of both supply and demand. This has had a significant impact on the development of a new service offer by the Environmental Administration. In fact, public use has received strong support from the Administration throughout this time. Proof of this is the significant investment effort that has been dedicated to the increase in the number of equipment, which currently exceeds 1,000, of new construction or located in existing facilities, previously rehabilitated. As in any process, the management of this extensive heritage has been evolving little by little, within the framework of a constant search for improvement in the services provided and with the always accompanied objective of making them less economically dependent on the Administration while maximizing the efficiency of the budget invested. The evolution of reality should lead us towards an evolution of the strategy, based on three principles: 1. The generation of an economy associated with visitor activity. 2. The institutional collaboration and all the dynamic agents of the territory. 3. The promotion of private participation in management. In this regard, there are two components of the Strategy for Action that need to be reoriented and driven forward effectively. First, the planning of public use, which must be consolidated by its ability to rationalize and order the use of resources, attending, from its insertion in the integral management of the space where it is located and the environment to which it belongs, to the conservation of values, the quality of experience and the possible economic use linked to the activities, services and equipment that make up the system, being an instrument that facilitates the formulas of co-responsibility, the participation of other entities and the approach to the territory, and that completes the regulatory framework of the sector. Secondly, the formulas and instruments of management of equipment and services, seeking the promotion of private participation, institutional collaboration and the generation of an economy associated with the activity of the visitor. This aspect is the one that is most widely developed in this document, focusing especially on the dynamizing role developed by the equipment of information and reception of visitors. This document is in line, as it could not be otherwise, with the strategic planning promoted by the Ministry of Tourism and Sport. Thus, most of the actions contemplated here will generate important synergies with those of the General Sustainable Tourism Plan of Andalusia. Horizon 2020, the Plan+Interior. Comprehensive Strategy for the Promotion of Sustainable Inland Tourism in Andalusia 2020 or the Tourism Quality Plan 2014-2020? The objectives, guiding principles and strategic lines of these documents complement each other, contributing to a more transversal and inclusive approach to the fundamental role played by public use in the territory as a driving force for the rural economy and a tool for environmental awareness of the population. In short, this document aims to chart the way towards a more efficient management of public use in the use of public resources, more effective in generating employment and more dynamic in the provision of services to citizens.

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