According to the data made public, all the stores located in the Tourist Centers contribute profits, except for the one located in the Farmer's Monument. As for the hospitality sector, all the bars and restaurants in the centers show losses, with the exception of the one located in the Mirador del Río.
Despite the deficit generated by the hotel activity of the Tourist Centers, the EPEL, the company that manages them, is satisfied with the results of the accounts for 2005. They point out that the more than 3 million euros in losses in the concept of "Central" correspond to general expenses of personnel, administration, purchases or maintenance that have not been distributed by center "for not having well distributed the criteria to do so", according to the counselor, but that if they had done so, they would turn the figures obtained in the stores of the Tourist Centers into deficits and would increase the losses of restoration by one million euros.
To those 6.2 million euros of profits in 2005, it would be necessary to subtract the more than 5 million that they paid in concept of fees to the Cabildo and the town halls in whose municipalities the centers are located and the money destined to social work in the form of agreements with the MIAC, the Campamento La Santa, Cruz Roja or the Escuela de Hostelería. In short, the fiscal benefit remains at just over one million euros that, according to Pedro San Ginés, "is destined to investments in the Tourist Centers".
Both San Ginés and the manager of the EPEL pointed out as one of the important factors that make it difficult for these loss results to be reversed is the collective agreement of the workers. According to José Juan Lorenzo, in the last 10 years the income in the Tourist Centers has increased something more than 4% while the personnel cost has grown more than 8%. For the manager of the EPEL, "it is necessary to stop the loss of productivity".
These are considerations that both the counselor and the manager expose just a few days before the first meeting that the management of the EPEL will hold with the representatives of the workers' committee, scheduled for next Friday, January 12, date on which the negotiations for the revision of the collective agreement will begin. Some negotiations that are expected to be complicated in which one of the hobbyhorses of the management will be the 35 weekly hours of work established by the agreement and that is for the counselor "not very competitive for the hospitality industry". San Ginés assures that "it bothers certain union representatives that these accounts are being made public, but it is my obligation".
The Tourist Centers in figures of 2005