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The Minister of Industry, Tourism, Enterprise and Innovation, Juan Carlos Ruiz, said this morning that "the regional government will work with the City of Cartagena and the Port Authority for the 'Puerto Home' project to become a reality in the shortest possible "time.

Juan Carlos Ruiz met with the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, and the president of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla, with whom agreed to maintain "a work schedule that allows us to advance this project, strategic for tourism in the region ".

Ruiz said that "making cruises leaving the city itself will allow tourists to stay overnight, with the consequent impact on the local economy, and also tour packages that benefit the entire region are developed".

Also, the regional head of Tourism said that "Cartagena has the infrastructure, cultural and heritage resources, the gastronomic and climatic conditions necessary for us to continue strengthening the tourism product".

And he noted that "the port city and has become, by its nature, in a preferred scales of many Mediterranean cruises."

"The data speaks for itself," said the adviser, who noted that "during 2014 reached the port of Cartagena 109 cruises with a total of 137,985 passengers, representing a historical record of cruise passengers and 2.8 percent more than in 2013 which already was a record year. "

He added that "this port has the added bonus of being at the gates of the city."

Juan Carlos Ruiz noted that currently, shipping arriving at the Port of Cartagena are mainly UK (42 percent), United States (39.6 percent), Germany (14.2 percent) and Italy (4 percent). "The spending by cruise passengers has focused on purchases and restoration," so it is an activity with an important dynamic impact on the economy of the city, "he said, adding that" for their scales, choose shipping destinations with package tours sufficiently large and attractive. "

The profile of cruise passengers is that of a person with a medium-high earners, who usually travel in pairs or groups of family or friends.

Cruise ship traffic on the Spanish Mediterranean coast has a pattern of seasonality six months in high season, from April to October.

Source: CARM