The locals took second place in the number of visits to the website of Tourism of the City of Cartagena in March, surpassing for the first time residents in the city of Murcia by almost 1 percent, according to Herrero informadoJavier , Councillor of Tourism.
Smith has said that the number of consultations during the first quarter of this year was more than double that in the first quarter of 2009, from 120,000 to over 231,000 pages viewed, following a progression that began with the renovation of the website last summer.
The Councillor of Tourism pointed out that the most significant increases have occurred in parts of Spain in which the city of Cartagena has developed promotional campaigns.
This is what happened in Madrid, but also in Barcelona.
Although the queries from the Catalan capital only accounted for 4.21 percent of the total, this percentage is twice that in the month of January.
Cartagena, Madrid, Murcia, Valencia, Barcelona and Alicantefueron, in that order, the locations from which further inquiries are made.
The most visited pages on the website of tourism have been those relating to restaurants, city tours and accommodations.
According to Smith, the earliest celebration of Easter has been important for the occurrence of such records, but recalled that the last half of 2009 and recorded a 30 percent increase in the number of consultations.
Although cartagenaturismo.es is an independent portal on the web, its main path is the web municipalcartagena.es, which is the fourth most visited page of the ones with the municipalities of Spain.
Decartagena.es ahead are only the sites of Barcelona, Madrid and La Coruna.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena