Raquel Sánchez will be the new president-CEO of Paradores de Turismo, according to what La Vanguardia has learned. The former Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda thus joins the public company, replacing Pedro Saura, who has been in office since the summer of 2021.
The Government has chosen Sánchez’s profile for a company that has positive business figures due to the recovery of tourism in Spain.
Raquel Sánchez was, before joining Pedro Sánchez’s Government in July 2021, mayor of Gavá. In 2014 she became mayor after serving, between 2007 and 2011, as deputy mayor of the area of ??Economy and Finance, Human Resources and General Services and spokesperson for the Municipal Socialist Group in this council. She was also in charge of the area of ??Urban Planning, Economic Promotion, Environment and Sustainability.
In the organic field, since 2012 she has been first secretary of the PSC of Gavà. She is part of the Executive Commission of the PSC of Baix Llobregat and is a member of the National Council of the PSC. Raquel Sánchez has been part of the PSC Executive since 2016. Until December 2019 she served as Secretary of Women’s Policies and since then as Secretary of Strategy and Climate.
Between January and June of this year, Paradores exceeded 140 million in revenue for the first time in its history, 7% above the same period in 2022. With 97 establishments spread across the country, the public company closed the last year with a profit after taxes of 11 million, below the 16.8 million in 2019.
In parallel, the board of directors of the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) will address at its meeting this Thursday the appointment of Pedro Saura as the new president of Correos, replacing Juanma Serrano.
