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The Popular Party candidate for mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, said this morning the number of visitors to the city will continue to grow if it continues to expand and offer opportunities such as high speed connection to take advantage because "El AVE to Cartagena will open another big door to tourism, to nationals of the 30 cities that will be in the red this year, and reaching the great Spanish international airports ".
Barreiro was speaking this morning at a ceremony on tourism sector in the center Augusteum, with the PP candidate for President of the Regional Government, Pedro Antonio Sanchez and PP candidates municipalities of Mar Menor.
"In the Popular Party have always understood tourism as an economic industry and that industry has consolidated in Cartagena in recent years thanks to the Popular Party", said Barreiro.
In this regard, the candidate said that the Popular Party decided to tourism when nobody believed in him, "when we arrived at city hall, tourism Cartagena lived only sun and beach, today we maintained and enhanced our town, we are the fifth consecutive year the municipality with the most awarded beaches of Spain. "
Moreover, the work of the Popular Party has opened new avenues of tourism as tourism of archaeological, cultural, sporting heritage, congresses, cruises, or idiomatic.
The data speaks for itself, "we have gone from three museums 17 museums and interpretation centers," said the candidate.
Remarkably, by Cartagena Port of Cultures it has passed since its opening 3 million visitors.
The Roman theater has become the most visited monument in the region, nearly one million visitors since its opening in 2008.
Cruise tourism in ten years has grown by 80%, we received 750,000 cruise passengers aboard 655 ships.
"Today we talk about 140,000 cruise passengers in Cartagena in just one year," said Barreiro.
For sightseeing Congress, the candidate Pilar Barreiro stressed that "the audience has left El Batel an economic impact of 11 million euros since opening just over three years ago in the city."
However, to Barreiro, Cartagena city tour has not peaked, there are many things to be done to further advance its tourism consolidation.
The program's Party collects new challenges that will increase tourism and improve the position of Cartagena in the national and international tourist map.
In the next legislature, "the excavation of the Roman theater will be completed by incorporating the area behind the stage and we will increase the tourist offer with the complete excavation of the area of ​​the Roman Forum and the opening of a new interpretation center" announced the candidate.
In addition, he stressed that "we will start working in the Roman amphitheater, to define the excavation project and begin recovering the second largest Roman monument of the city."
It notes that the recovery of historical and archaeological heritage has been decisive to constitute an attractive offer, to which must be added, according to the candidate "the recovery of the historic center and the pedestrian, which has resulted in ten years overnight stays City hotels have doubled. "
"We can say that Cartagena is a tourist town with a long road ahead and from the People's Party have projects and ideas for moving in the right direction and go down that road," Pilar Barreiro has ended.
Source: PP Cartagena
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