35%, foreign and 7%, the rest of the Region |
This Easter the city has been completely filled with visitors.
This assessment is reflected in the data presented this afternoon by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, who has estimated the increase in visitor numbers by 9.4 percent, as the statistics of the interpretation center Cartagena, Puerto Cultures.
Without Good Friday an open day was held in Puerto centers of cultures, from Saturday March 27 to Sunday April 5, were recorded in these centers 14 968 visitors which means an increase of 1,285 tourists compared to last year.
The highest number of visitors coming from the Community of Madrid with 48%, 28% of Valencia, 8% of Andalusia, Catalonia 6% and 4% of Castilla La Mancha. In total, 58% comes from tourists national, 35% of foreign and 7% of the regional.
These data demonstrate the promotional effort that has been done in recent months Consjería City Hall and Tourism of the Autonomous Community to promote the processions of Cartagena, with different advertising and promotional initiatives.
The mayor also noted in this line the biggest Norwegian and Austrian tourists will come from this week at La Manga, responding to the efforts that have been made ​​insistently with tour operators in these countries.
In total 15,000 come over the next week.
THIS HOLY WEEK IN NATIONAL TELEVISION CARTAGENA
Another notable aspect of Easter this year was the presence of the processions of Cartagena on national television, through a series of summaries crude recorded and distributed from the own Hall Press Office broadcasters.
Images of the first procession of Spain, the Cristo del Socorro offered;
of Holy Tuesday for its unique military content;
of the Holy Wednesday and Encounter.
With them the appearance was achieved on the news and information programs Telecinco (Informative Morning, Informative 15h), Antena 3 (Informative 15h, Weather with Roberto Brasero); LaSexta (Mas Vale Tarde program); Spanish Television (informative regional and national ) and digital media group Vocento (ABC TV, The Courier, La Rioja ...), among others.
163 THOUSAND VISITORS TO THE WEB PÃ GINA
The page web of Holy Week Cartagena which administers the City has registered some 163,000 visitors since Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
It detailed information on each of the shows and events, as well as the routes of processions were provided with a number of images.
On Good Friday with 19,000 visits was the day with more hits, followed by Holy Thursday with about 18 thousand.
34 MIL INTERNAUTS FOLLOWED THE BROADCASTING OF PROCESIONES
As for the retransmission of processions through this website miama in collaboration with TELECARTAGENA, were followed by 34,000 Internet users.
Most popular were the Holy Wednesday, some 7,000 people;
the Palm Sunday, for a 4,900;
the Holy Monday and Tuesday by about 4,100 each;
and Good Friday, for about 3,400.
BEST EASTER OF SPAIN SEGÚN 20 MINUTES
Finally include the declaration of the Holy Week of Cartagena as the best in Spain for 20 minutes Digital Magazine , surpassing popular vote to Zamora, Sevilla and Malaga
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena