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The number of visitors to the interpretation centers of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas has increased by 32,411 in the first five months of 2018, which represents an increase of 24.54% over the same period of 2017. In total, from January to May, 164,487 people visited these facilities, compared to 132,076 the previous year.
The Nordic tourists are those who have experienced a greater increase, with an increase of 95%, followed by those of the Valencian Community, with 59%, and visitors from the Region, who have registered a rise of 63%.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has celebrated this data of visitors and has highlighted the importance of the work of tourism promotion that have been carried out in recent years, "now we can see the result of performances such as the Fair of Tourism of Oslo, where we realized a great work of catchment, or our determined bet by the regional tourism that was suffering a descent in the number of visitors during the first two years of legislature ", has indicated the first aedile.
In this way, visitors to the Valencian Community continue to lead the data in terms of national tourism is concerned, and followed by Madrid and Andalusians.
As for international tourists, the British are the ones who visit us the most, followed by the Americans and the French.
On the other hand, the Interpretation Center that has increased the number of visits in these five months of the year has been the Barrio de Foro Romano with 17%, reaching the figure of 21,469 tourists.
In second place is the Augusteum, which has increased its number of visitors by 16%, while the Roman Theater, which has consolidated as our biggest tourist attraction, has registered an increase of 11%.
Likewise, there has been an increase in spending per visitor of 2.8%.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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