📋 Tender Overview
The visit of the Minister of Tourism and Transport Carlos Santos to Bilbao opens with the President of the Government of the Basque Country and President of the Municipality of the City excellent prospects for cooperation in the field of tourism and several other areas of collaboration between Cape Verde and that city in Spain and the Basque Country.Carlos Santos accompanied by the Ambassador of Cape Verde in Spain Manuel Ney Cardoso and the Honorary Consul of Cape Verde in Bilbao Gonzalo Alvarez Urquijo made a quick visit to the CityMunicipality of Bilbao on the 21st and 22nd of the current and capital of the Province of Biscay in the Basque Country.Of the meetings he held with local authorities those with the President of the Basque Government El Lehendakari and his General Secretary for External Action Marian Elorza at the Palacio de Ajuria Enea with the President of the Municipality of Bilbao stand out. Juan Mari Aburto and his Councilwoman for the cooperation area and also with the new management of the Chamber of Commerce in addition to some businessmen interested in investing in Cape Verde.Especially with the President of the Government and the Mayor of that city there are very good prospects for cooperation particularly in the areas of tourism sustainability environmental economic and social training of tourism professionals exchange between hotel schools in Cape Verde and that of the Basque Country one of the most renowned in Spain and Europe as well as in the social and health area and also with regard to business cooperation at the level of the private sector.Particularly noteworthy is the practical way in which the Mayor of Bilbao demonstrated his willingness to see cooperation with Cape Verde move forward as well as the availability and total openness of the President of the Government.It should be noted that among the autonomous regions of Spain the Basque Country enjoys special autonomy namely in fiscal and financial matters which allows it remarkable conditions and means for cooperation with this archipelago.Following this visit arrangements are already being made for the next few days between the Ministry of Tourism and Transport and some of its most direct partners at central and municipal level and public and private institutions in the Basque Country with a view to implementing some very concrete opportunities for cooperation that have already been identified which should be designed and implemented as soon as possible.The Basque Country or the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country is located in the extreme north of Spain and in the extreme southwest of France cut by the mountain range of the Pyrenees and bathed by the Bay of Biscay includes three Basque provinces and has Vitoria-Gasteiz as its capital but the largest city in the Basque Country is Bilbao with just under 350000 inhabitants.
