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The building of the CIM of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) hosted yesterday the celebration of the Cartagena Cruise Forum, an event that brought together professionals from the cruise sector and that highlighted the various opportunities for generating wealth that cruise traffic offers to Cartagena and the rest of the Region.
The forum was attended by the head of Commerce of MC, Joaquín Moya, as well as other members of the Cartagena training.
The meeting showed, once again, that the apathetic policies and demonstrated incapacity of the higher administrations continue to weigh what should be a constant growth of the municipality.
Yesterday, it was found that the absence of infrastructures in the field of communications becomes the main reason to deny Cartagena its conversion into port of exit of cruises 'Puerto Home'.
At this juncture, the president of MC, Jesús Giménez, has declared that what is known "has been a blow of reality, in the positive and in the negative, the positive, the realization that urban tourism, the heritage and environmental attractiveness of Our municipality and Region and the work that has been developed from the local administration has paid off and we have established ourselves as a reference destination for shipping companies ".
At the other extreme, there is the negative aspect that reveals the opinion of "the specialists of the sector, the 'sale of smoke' that has been done for a decade by previous governments and the Port Authority when affirming that Cartagena can be 'Puerto Home' in the short or medium term, "said Jesús Giménez.
"Cartagena, sadly, can not be 'Puerto Home' in the medium term because circumstances do not exist, particularly in relation to infrastructures or having an investment planned to improve them. state do not invest in the region of Cartagena and that ballasts a destination of reference that, despite this, goes ahead and becomes a reference for Mediterranean tourism, "said the leader of the Cartagena training.
Giménez regretted that he wasted time in "selling smoke and propaganda, when you should work."
"At MC we are committed to attracting sustainable tourism and getting the port of Cartagena to embark passengers by 'interporting' and not as 'Puerto Home', since we do not have the infrastructures to be the fixed headquarters of these cruises. The quality of the cruise ships that arrive in Cartagena in the face of the desire to increase the quantity, has been working for quality for some time now, and Cartagena is lucky to offer it and we must be up to the task and work on that improvement ", he concluded. the president of MC
Gaps that limit growth
Thus, the inexistence of a nearby international airport with operational connections (although Corvera continues to tax the pockets of the inhabitants of the Region);
the lack of High Speed;
the scarce service of long-distance buses and trains, or the limited connections by highways are definitive arguments to prevent Cartagena from being considered, in the medium term, the exit port of cruise ships.
Or what is the same, the municipality, the region and, by extension the rest of the region, are doomed not to walk the next logical step that the tourist boom in our environment empowers.
For all these reasons, MC Cartagena considers that these considerations suppose another slap in the face of regional and state governments, incapable of establishing the breadth of vision that the Region deserves, that which must transcend the care of a single municipality to deal with the generation of wealth and resources that would benefit the whole CARM.
Our training hopes that the opinion expressed yesterday by the professionals of the sector does not fall on deaf ears and is capable of awakening the consciences and resolutive capacity of those who have the future of this Region in their hands.
Source: MC
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