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The number of entries to museums network Cartagena, Port of Cultures sold during this Easter has grown 18% over the last year, as reported by the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina.

15,300 visitors bought tickets for museums and interpretation centers between Good Friday and Easter Sunday and, according to the councilor, this is an excellent data that confirms what we have all seen on the street, we have experienced a great Easter with tourists in the hotels, filled terraces and many visitors enjoy our heritage and beaches.

In the coming days more accurate statistics on hotel occupancy and source of tourists are drawn but the absence of these data, we can advance as Palazón, the occupation has been the best in recent years and that promotion efforts have had results.

In that regard, he recalled that his Department has conducted previous campaigns at Easter in national media, regional and local media twenty capitals and six communities, as well as specialized media in travel or airline magazines.

In this promotion, the cost of which is estimated at around 140,000 euros, has spoken of processions, but also the rest of the equity offering and beach in the vicinity of the bridge in May and the summer season.

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Carolina Palazón added that in the central days of Holy Week has appreciated i ncremento in the number of visits by citizens of other towns in the region. It is a fact that will be difficult to contrast statistics, please visitors is necessarily entering a museum, but people who have decided to spend one or more days in the city to watch processions and this year especially, to enjoy growing our offering of hospitality in the historic town, which already it has become a tourist value in itself.

The councilor added that these good results demonstrate the consolidation of tourism as one of our main economic lines, thanks aa investments and changes that have been made ​​in our cultural heritage? Recent years.

To Palazón, the nascent economic recovery is another to consider data and exit from the crisis will be decisive for the increase in domestic tourism in Cartagena.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena