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The city of Cartagena reached this summer the highest volume of travelers and overnight stays recorded in the historical series
In the first eight months of the year, both the number of travelers and the number of overnight stays in the municipality of Cartagena increased significantly, with an interannual increase of 2.8 percent in the first case, to 227,105 tourists, and 6 , 5 percent in the second, up to 884,463 hotel nights, according to INE data.
This was stated today by the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Miriam Guardiola, in the meeting she had with representatives of the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations of Cartagena and District (Coec).
In addition, during this period, the average stay increased by 3.8 percent, reaching 3.9 days in hotels in the municipality of Cartagena.
With respect to July and August, the city of Cartagena improved its statistics with respect to 2017 until reaching the highest volume of travelers and overnight stays registered in the historical series.
Specifically, the number of travelers in hotel establishments increased 1.8 percent in those two months, to 29,377, and there were a total of 66,059 overnight stays, 1.5 percent more than in the summer of 2017.
The Region of Murcia is resisting better than other communities the external conjuncture, and the greatest impulse is derived from the average stay and the expense per tourist.
In this regard, Guardiola recalled that "this positive trend is being reinforced by the communication strategy launched by Tourism, which involves an investment of more than seven million euros for the period 2018-2019."
This strategy combines the macro-agreements with marketing channels and national and international advertising campaigns in the same planning, as well as the budget item destined to promote the destination at an international level due to the start-up of the International Airport and the opening of new air connections with new markets and new airlines.
Regarding the development of new tourism infrastructure in Cartagena, the Minister said that this morning in the Regional Assembly "has approved the amendment that provides legal security for the Governing Council to approve the transitional rules, which is something vital for the industrial sector and tourist in Cartagena ".
In addition, he added, "the city does not have a general plan, and the regional government in a very brave, has studied all the mechanisms to provide security and to allow the development of new tourist infrastructure."
Coto clandestine tourism
During the meeting also presented the new measures taken by the Ministry against clandestine tourism, which respond to the own requests of the sector and as an object to stop tourist activity alegal.
Thus, they focus especially on the main regional tourist centers, such as Cartagena.
Guardiola explained that, "to double the inspection capacity" of the Tourism Institute, the Ministry will hire a team to support the inspection work, and will implement a monitoring platform for online tourist rentals.
In a complementary manner, the Cadastre has been collaborated to identify the owners who are not registered and, therefore, be able to sanction them if they are operating in hiding.
These actions have been reinforced by other activities led by the Ministry, such as the launch of the summer inspection campaign that resulted in 58 visits and 283 new registered holiday homes.
In addition, the Ministry has recently participated in a Working Group at the national level in which the Government of Spain has been required to "lead the search for formulas that contribute to minimize the legal offer of housing for tourist use and harmonize regional legislation" , said Guardiola.
One of the challenges of the Tourism Institute for 2018 is to regularize 600 homes for tourist use, which means more than 2,700 places.
Source: CARM
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