The tourism sector his outraged with the Dutch tabloid press.

De Telegraaf quoted a study by the Dutch ministry of health, that half of the young Dutch with influenza A, were infected in Salou or Lloret de Mar
MARIA Pedrola - (Diari de Tarragona)

Sensationalism. This is how the tourism industry is to qualify the information published by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, which is a black spot in Salou with the influenza A in Europe. "We have created a much more alarm than necessary," says the manager of the Tourist Board of the Tarragona, Octavi Bono, who acknowledges that "what is the newspaper that has taken this information and is a very sensational. Bono explained that the council, together with the Tourist Board in Salou, that they follow the theme "we are inspired and a absolutely normal situation."

The news also caught by surprise the president of the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, M ª Eugenia Arbo, and explained that "in September there are very good sales and customer for the moment all Dutch still as good as last year . Arbo also announced that it followed up the matter and noted that "by the Dutch government, there is no blacklist or ban on travel to Spain, and on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands is also not mentioned anything. In addition, M ª Eugenia Arbo explained that "I have spoken with the 2 largest Dutch tour in our area and I have been assured that there is no touroperación alarm.
The discrepancy in this press release is also share by the hotels in Salou. The hotel manager of the hotel Casablanca Rotonda, Angel Vicens, said: 'I do not think that the current focus of Salou is concerning the influenza A. They want to defend a market, but it does not have to attack another. " Moreover, as explained yesterday Vicens, "today has been a Dutch family who knew this information and do not understand why all this has been said."

Employment to leisure industry
This news does not go unnoticed by the Association of Bars, Restaurants and Leisure Salou. Despite the fact that its president, José Otero, declared that "we have noticed that this year the Dutch are less', also pointed out that" the same goes with Russian clients, Belgian or British, and it is a situation that repeats like previous years. " Otero believes that the intention is to pursue this boycott, "this is not the fault of influenza A, the problem is the actual crisis and they are campaigning for people to stay in there own country and spent less holidays over here."

Two confirmed cases
The number of patients attending the Primary Care Center of Salou by "influenza A" "is within the normal what could be expected". So said the center's director, Laura Palacios, who described as "quite uncertain" the information published by De Telegraaf: 'We've only had 2 confirmed cases of influenza A and were not foreigners. " As an example, Palacios explained that last week received 14 cases of possible cases, 'but which used to be a simple cold can lead to summer flu. "