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| Cartagena now has 11 health trust certifications: seven museums, a unique space and three tourist offices | Nine tourist spaces in Cartagena have received this Friday, September 11, the 'Safe Tourism Certified' certificate, granted by the Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE), to offer security against the coronavirus and maximum guarantees of risk prevention throughout the value chain of the tourism sector.

The badges have been delivered in the Barrio del Foro Romano by the general director of Quality, María Esther Tenza and the general director (ICTE), Fernando Fraile in an act in which the Councilor for Tourism, Cristina Pérez and the manager of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, María Dolores Ponce."Seven of these places are museums and interpretation centers of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, among which are the Augusteum, the Casa de la Fortuna, the Punic Wall, the Forum District, the Castillo de la Concepción, the Christmas Fort.

and the Civil War Museum Refuge ", Cristina Pérez has announced, who has also pointed out that" this seal is being released in two other places, the City Hall as a visitor space and its tourist office ".Therefore, Cartagena already has 11 tourist areas with the distinctive of "Safe Tourism", since these nine places are added to the two that obtained it last August; the Puertas de San José and La Manga offices."The Region of Murcia is the first single-province community with more safe tourism communities, but the important thing is not the position, but rather to value and justify the position", indicated María Esther Tenza, "Cartagena has this justification, as it is one of the the first cities to certify its museum and heritage spaces to increase the health guarantee provided to those who choose it as a destination, "he pointed out.The Councilor for Tourism has insisted that "Cartagena has made great efforts in recent decades to transform its historical heritage into the best tourist offer, that is why we have always demanded to present this offer with the highest quality.

The sanitary circumstances have led us to work to add security to that offer and to do so, once again with the highest security criteria.Likewise, Fernando Fraile has recognized the "effort made by the administrations in a triple effort in the face of the situation generated by COVID19", and explained that "a triple job is necessary; that of the administrations, that of the companies and that of the own citizenship ".

The 'Safe Tourism Certified' transmits the concept of certified safe tourism through an audit. 

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena