The Serra Mariola Association is an interprofessional association that is independent of the Administration, professional organizations of workers and political parties. It focuses its activities especially on companies and institutions installed in the territory between the natural parks of Serra Mariola and Font Roja as well as the bordering areas, without specifying a line that expressly delimits this territory.
Who can join the Serra Mariola Association?
The Serra Mariola Association is open to:
- Companies that express their explicit interest in promoting the Serra Mariola and its tourist image, both nationally and internationally.
- Associations, business organizations and professional associations of a sectorial or territorial nature that manifest their interest in contributing to the development and dissemination of knowledge related to their territorial area.
- Territorial institutions, training entities and university institutes that show special interest in developing specific activities of training, research, development and promotion of the territory, through the dissemination of knowledge generated, related to the territorial development of the Sierra Mariola, as a strategic factor in generating individual or collective value.
- Professionals, members of the association and/or self-employed, and individuals who consider territorial development as an important critical factor in any of the processes of value generation for society.
Aims of the Serra Mariola Association
The fifth article of its current statutes determines the purposes of the association:
- The promotion of the Sierra Mariola and its tourist image, both nationally and internationally.
- To promote initiatives, public and private, for the creation of wealth and employment.
- The attraction of tourism to the Sierra Mariola.
- To design projects of modernization, innovation, diversification, qualification, selectivity, competitiveness and tourist excellence for the territory in the area of the Sierra Mariola.
- To manage the promotion, marketing and commercialization of institutional tourism products.
- To promote tourist activities. To offer advisory services to all operators in the tourism sector.
- To elaborate any class of informative and advertising actions, on traditional and computer supports, and to take charge of its distribution, as well as to inform by means of the promotion, before the holders of the public routes, of the installation, conservation, replacement and withdrawal of the indicative signs.
- To issue opinions on the publication of publications of any kind, relating to tourism in its area and paid for by public bodies or organisations.
- To make an inventory of all types of resources that may help the development of tourism.
- To protect and defend the resources and values of the territory and the area of the Sierra Mariola.
- To observe and demand the application of the rules.
- Negotiate, collaborate and coordinate their work with any natural or legal person the activity that has as objective the tourism.
- To present suggestions and initiatives to the competent bodies and organs.
- To manage, propose or carry out actions and plans that can contribute to the tourist promotion of the territory in the area of the Sierra Mariola.
- To formalize agreements and agreements of technical and/or economic collaboration with public or private entities, with the aim of promoting the technical development of tourism in the area of the Sierra Mariola.
- How many others, provided that they are considered suitable for the development of tourism in the Sierra Mariola.
Activities of the Association Serra Mariola
For all these reasons, the association can carry out, among others, the following activities
– Build or acquire in property or in use facilities for the fulfillment of its purposes.
– Hire the necessary technical and administrative staff to meet the various purposes of the association.
– Formalize agreements or contracts, public or private, relating to acts of acquisition or administration of real estate or movable property necessary for the fulfillment of its purposes.
– To organize all the services of the association.
– To request and accept subsidies, aids and other assistance from the State, autonomous community, public corporations and individuals.
– To grant treasury contracts, to arrange loans for the optimum fulfilment of its purposes and to file any kind of claim and action before the administrative, governmental and judicial authorities within its scope of action.
– Marketing and sale of publications and institutional promotional items related to tourism and/or before the registered trademarks that the association may have.
– Perform all those tasks that are subordinate or accessory to the main activity.
– Exercise the economic activities necessary for the fulfillment of its purposes.
– And, in general, to carry out all the actions that are conducive to the best success of its purposes.