Cartagena City Council is working to make the city home port, ie a baseline input and output port cruise, according to today indicated the mayor, José Lope z.
Lopez has referred to it would show very pleased after 8,000 tourists between yesterday and today have come ashore in the port of Cartagena aboard four cruisers and 20,000 pass through the city in August.
Lopez has revealed that these figures will be overcome in September, in which, in one day, 21, about 10,000 tourists arrive in three other cruisers.
The mayor pointed out that 70 percent of tourism in the region is based in Cartagena and its surroundings and therefore the city is the benchmark for this sector in the region.
This will be higher when Cartagena become home port. We are working on it, said the Mayor, and we will try to put some shipping interests in the city, with the installation of a hotel, and explained that it is prepared the framework to have it easy and when we say to Cartagena, can be installed without problems.
The mayor also said that Cartagena has always been a welcoming city that welcomes you with open arms to visitors;
you have to display archaeological heritage and should be very proud.
So let's try to keep up the circumstances for you to visit us l drive belt are how much there is to do and how well they have been treated, concluded Lopez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena