Alicante, Mar 3 (EFE) .- Miguel Cardenal, president of the Sports Council (CSD), today defended in Alicante Spain” has the challenge of transforming their sporting excellence in ability to generate wealth and employment “for Spanish.
Cardinal was speaking during the speech he made at a ceremony in the city of Alicante where he has delivered to the capital of the Costa Blanca Plate Bronze Royal Order of Sports Merit.
The head of the CSD has emphasized the need to combine sports and tourism. “Spain has an extraordinary sporting potential. We are a leader in the world. But we face the challenge, and we are traveling in a reasonable manner, to transform that sporting excellence capable of generating wealth, jobs for our people,” he commented.
Cardinal gave as an example the surveys of Turespaña in which it is said that “every six tourists visiting our country, one does it for sport.”
“The numbers of visitors outsiders say more than two million came to participate in a sporting competition and more than eight million to spend your holiday in Spain just for sport, “he said.
In this regard, he stressed the” Bet important for this type of activity “made in Alicante and has specially appointed the Volvo Ocean Race, race staged around the world has departed from the port of Alicante in his last three editions. “The studies are at an extraordinary return for every dollar invested,” he said
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