Imserso trips take another step towards being operational in the coming year. The director of the Institute of Elderly and Social Services (Imserso), Luis Alberto Barriga Martin, signed Tuesday the final award of the Social Tourism Program.
Imserso trips will have to wait until November, according to agencies
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This is an administrative step, since, basically, is the confirmation of the award carried out a month ago, when the agency responsible for travel for seniors awarded two of the three lots of the program to Mundiplan (the union of companies composed of Iberia, IAG7 and Alsa) and another to Ávoris (Barceló and Halcón Viajes).
In this way, Mundiplan is awarded the travel lots in the areas of the peninsular and island coast, while Ávoris corresponds to the inland tourism.
The first of these contracts, the lot of peninsular coast, has been awarded for a maximum amount of 26.4 million euros, according to the State Contracting Platform, while the other lot of Mundiplan, the island coasts, is 19.8 million. In the case of the lot of inland tourism and European origin, awarded to Ávoris, reaches a total amount of 7.78 million euros, according to the aforementioned documentation.
When will they reach the travel agencies?
From now on there is a period of 15 working days for companies to file an appeal, according to sources of Imserso, which are required to meet the administrative deadlines set by law after the award.
If there are no appeals, it will be from then, when the Imserso begin to send letters to all potential users of this service, more than tThe information and instructions for the marketing of travel (booking and payment of travel in travel agencies) are available to more than three million people.
In this way, travel is expected to be channelled through travel agencies from the middle of December next year.
According to the agency, which depends on the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, the awarding of this Tuesday has been confirmed after having been examined and checked the documentation required of the companies since last October 7, 2021, when the provisional awarding took place.
In this way, the aforementioned sources indicate, it is accredited that the companies meet all the requirements demanded by the particular administrative clauses and do not incur in initial presumption of containing abnormal or disproportionate values.
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