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The consortium Cartagena Puerto de Culturas today held its first Board of Governors in 2011 chaired by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, which also involved members of all the entities that comprise this body that manages the city's tourist resources such as Autonomous Region, through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the City Council, the Port Authority, the Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of Employers of Cartagena.

At that meeting, among others, have presented the results of visitors in 2010 that reached 344,342 visitors, representing an increase of 5 percent over the previous year.

Structure has also changed the type of visitor interpretation centers, growing 3 percent individual visitors over the group.

About their origin: 39 percent were the Region of Murcia, a 30 percent national, mainly in cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, and 31 percent of foreigners, mostly from the UK, France and Germany.

Note that foreign visitors have increased by 10 percent over last year, mainly due to the large number of cruise ships that have docked in the city during this period.

More S VISITORS IN THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE AND THE WEB PAGE

Also we have presented a summary of the actions undertaken by the Consortium in 2010, including the new rooms include medieval Castillo de la Concepcion, which have resulted in the recovery of several rooms connected to each other and their loopholes or rifle, allowing expand and improve the route including interpretation of the medieval history of the city.

The results of this action, since its opening in late July last year, have been very positive, both at the entrances to the center, with an increase of 42 percent, as store sales, an increase of 128 percent compared to the last half of last year.

Another action to highlight during 2010 was the launch of the new web portal, in collaboration with the Data Processing Centre of the City of Cartagena, the CENTIC, and Fundación ONCE, becoming the first tourism website that gets European certification quality and accessibility Euracert (organization specializing in accessibility via Web).

In the month of operation of the web the results were very satisfactory, because they have received over 32,000 page views, 2,000 from the mobile phone.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena