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The Ministry of Tourism, Youth and Sports, the City Council of Cartagena and the tourism sector work on a Strategic Plan for Sustainable Tourism 2020-2025 aimed at converting the Port City into a 'Smart City' with the objective that tourists have an experience of total connectivity with the Administration.

This sustainable tourism strategy in Cartagena is the working document that will design, with the consensus of all, the tourism model of the port city.

The Minister of Tourism, Youth and Sports, Cristina Sánchez, chaired the working table of the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Tourism 2020-2025 with representatives of the City Council and the Cartagena sector.

"We are going to mark the tourist future of the port city through a road map that will make Cartagena the tourist and socio-economic engine of the Region," said the minister.

He added that "a strategy will be developed that establishes a story and common guidelines, not only for the area of ​​municipal tourism, but for all public and private actors that make up the tourism sector of the municipality."

He also stressed that "Cartagena is the capital of regional tourism and has enough factors to become a role model for the rest of the municipalities."

Best records of city tourism

Cristina Sánchez stressed that the demand for urban hotel establishments "continues to show great dynamism in the Region, so that there are already seven years of uninterrupted growth that place city tourism in its best records."

The counselor highlighted a more pronounced growth rate in the city of Cartagena, where the number of travelers staying in their hotels registered an interannual increase of 12 percent, reaching 159,176.

The Port of Cartagena also attracted almost 80 percent of cruise passengers in southeastern Spain.

It was the eighth Spanish port with the largest number of cruises, after those of Barcelona, ​​Baleares, Málaga, Las Palmas, Valencia, Cádiz and Tenerife.

In addition, the arrival of tourists arriving on cruise ships to the port city represents 77.4 percent of the movement of cruise passengers in the ports of the peninsular southeast (Cartagena, Alicante and Almeria).

Source: CARM