The tourism sector in Barcelona, appalled by the murder of the director of the CCIB

2011-07-11T15:28:00.000-07:00

he Catalan tourism sector is dismayed and shocked by the killing of the International Convention Centre (CCIB), Felix Martinez Touriño, which was known as a serious, competent and very professional.

Touriño Felix Martinez, 36, died Monday morning in Barcelona after being shot in the streets of the Catalan capital, receiving a single shot in the head by a man who was masked and was fled.

The president of the Catalan Association of Travel Agents (ACAV) Carnerero Francisco, has had a memory for Martinez Touriño at the opening of ACAV Forum IX.

According Carnerero, the tourism industry is "appalled" because the circumstances of the incident, the age and what it represented in the sector have been heavily affected.

The news was very surprised the entire industry, "as a surprise to anyone in these circumstances," because it is a "very strong word."

From Barcelona Tourism has highlighted the professionalism of Touriño Martinez and his dedication to the "promotion of tourism in Barcelona."

Touriño Martinez had a distinguished career in the hotel world in Barcelona, with a great connection with the hotelier Antonio Catalan, president of the BC group in which the victim began his professional career, Efe reported.

Within the tourism industry speaks of him as a serious person, very competitive and very professional in the short period of time it took the International Convention Centre of Barcelona, where they reached one year of history, had managed to increase income significantly.

The director of the Barceló hotels in Barcelona, Antoni tapes, the group that had worked Felix Martinez, today highlighted the mood, "dedicated, dutiful and time" of the deceased, a person describing it as "very good treatment and a excellent quality. "

Cintas, who has been very affected by what happened yesterday in Barcelona, said that "does not mean that something has occurred."

For its part, the director of the Hotel Arts, Victor Clavell, said: "Obviously we're all very shocked by his death" and noted that this crime "has even transcended socially beyond tourism sector."

Touriño Martinez had risen very quickly in the area and had passed a rigorous recruitment process when he joined the BCCI, which chose him among other candidates valuing above all the work he had done in the AC Barcelona Forum A hotel close to the center, pinpointed sources of tourism.