The Tourism Department of Calpe Town Council has launched a survey on business confidence in the municipality in order to find out the perception of businessmen on the evolution of the economic situation of the municipality. This initiative is one of the requirements of the Calpe Strategic Tourism Plan and the Smart Tourism Destination Master Plan.
The Business Confidence Indicators are an interim survey whose aim is to gather the opinions of company managers on the current situation, as well as the company's prospects for the future. The target population are the establishments with at least one worker, distributed throughout the municipality of Calpe and the survey will be carried out quarterly
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In the survey, aimed at a minimum of 200 companies, Calpe's entrepreneurs are asked to evaluate the turnover, employment, investment and price index of the last quarter, as well as their expectations for the following quarter. They are also asked about the factors limiting the activity of the business in question.
These surveys will make it possible in the long term to know how business confidence is evolving, to monitor business confidence by quarter and to compare it with the national and regional data.
The Tourism Department ohas sent a letter to businesses registered in the Commerce and Tourism databases announcing the initiative and asking for their collaboration. The survey is voluntary, and the Town Council is very positive about its implementation, which in the first series has already received more than 200 responses.