Portal de Cartagena
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The cruiser AIDAvita, Aidacruisses company, will call on Friday, June 15 in Cartagena, with 1,262 passengers, mostly Germans, who from the port of Malaga, made ​​a tour of the Mediterranean.
As usual in these cases, the Department of Tourism will launch its device special attention and information to the cruise, which will remain in the city between 8 and 14 hours.
This is the cruise number 26 this year at the city since the start of the season on March 21 and one of the four that were recorded during the month of June.
Since 21 March, have already been 28,000 tourists who have had the opportunity to see the attractions of Cartagena. Until 19 December, ending the season are expected to arrive another 53 cruise ships with 62,000 tourists on board .
Forecasts for 2013 suggest that the number of scales is placed around 100 with about 100,000 passengers on board.
The fidelity of the shipping companies to Cartagena has its strength in the value they place cruisers to the situation of the port, near the Town and the City.
The average expenditure of a tourist has increased 5 euros in the last two years, reaching about 30 euros a day.
To provide better services to the cruise trade association is the Friend of the Cruise (CAC), an initiative which involved the city of Cartagena with the Port Authority of Cartagena, the Chamber of Commerce and Open Mall.
ACC has this year with 43 ​​establishments in the city center, which undertake to remain open during the scale of a cruise of more than 300 passengers.
The CAC publishes a map down with all associated facilities, indicating the location of them, as well as tourist attractions.
These plans are available at the information point of the Cruise Terminal.
The cruiser is a tourist, which requires highly specialized services and high quality.
Also, cruise ships need to receive care in a record period of time, solving all your logistic needs during the call of the ship.
For this reason, it has also constituted a Monitoring Committee of Cruise Tourism, which meets regularly as a forum for exchanging ideas and observatory of the quality of services rendered during the cruise ship, both for tourists and the ship, covering many different sectors (tourist guides, taxis, buses, tours, security, trade, supply vessels, etc.).
The committee includes representatives from stakeholders such as the Port Authority of Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of Murcia through the Ministry of Tourism and Tourist Region Murcia, Cartagena City Council through the Department of Tourism, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Cartagena, the Regional Confederation of Organizations of Cartagena, COEC, and the Business Association of Maritime, ASEAM.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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