The Ibiza Council has presented the next activities to be included in the Sustainable Ibiza initiative, which works for the development and positioning of the island as a benchmark in Sustainable and Responsible Tourism, contributing to the development of the local economy, respect for history and traditions and the promotion of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, with full employment and decent working conditions. To this end, Ibiza Council has presented the next activities to be included in this programme.
One example is the Ibiza Plogging event to be held on 23 and 24 February on the island, which will be a pioneering event in the practice of this physical activity involving the collection of waste.
Plogging was created in Stockholm in 2017, although it was quickly exported to other countries such as Finland, Norway, Scotland and France. Today more than 100 nations and more than 20,000 people practice this “sport” of picking up litter while doing any kind of physical activity.
To import this curious practice, the Ibiza Council will have a team of 12 people in the island’s five municipalities to provide information while carrying out inclusive Street Marketing actions to publicise this activity and win more followers.
On the other hand, within the framework of Ibiza’s agenda of activities, from January to March the institution is implementing the Recicl-Arte programme on the island, in which some of the island’s leading artists transform the waste collected in group activities into works of art. In fact, the Department of Tourism of the Ibiza Council will exhibit a sample of these artworks within the framework of the ITB Berlin fair to be held in the second week of March in the German capital.
At the present time, the Sustainable Ibiza Committee continues to work on upcoming events for 2019, such as the 1st Convention on Sustainable Tourism and the Ibiza ODS, which will be attended by institutions and companies from the island’s tourism sector. Another of the initiatives promoted by the leading Pityusic Island institution will be the presentation of the first Accessible Ibiza map, an interpretative map of the island, with relief and translated into Braille, which will promote universal accessibility and which will have a feature that allows the user to select the function of reading or listening to the texts in the language selected.