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The Italian delegation will also visit various cultural and religious monuments in Murcia and Mula
A delegation led by the head of pilgrimages Vatican, Monsignor Andreatta, this weekend will visit the region next to Italian journalists to publicize the Jubilee Year of Caravaca de la Cruz.
Monsignor Andreatta, director of Artistic Heritage Vatican and vice president of tour operator Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, an organization that belongs to the Vatican and program all pilgrimages to holy places coming out of Italy, will visit the region from 23 to 25 September, on the occasion of the inclusion of Caravaca de la Cruz and in the Jubilee Year pilgrimages grouped in the 2017 catalog of the organization.
Opera Romana Perregrinaggi is a tour operator belonging to the institution of the Vicariate of Rome, organ of the Holy See, specializing in religious tourism and pilgrimage, and its tourism products places of worship, monasteries, convents, chapels, shrines, churches, museums, etc. .
This tour operator moves annually more than 50 million pilgrims worldwide.
With respect to Caravaca de la Cruz, this organization will prepare an input circuit in Malaga, to be included along with Andalusia, or entrance from Valencia.
During his visit to the region, the Italian delegation will visit three municipalities: Caravaca de la Cruz, the main attraction and religious destiny of the region;
Murcia and Mula, visiting them the most important and relevant to national and international cultural and religious monuments and the most emblematic relics.
The Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment Development, Juan Hernandez, welcomed the news, noting that it is "a tour operator in the sector of religious tourism, so that your visit gives an important support for the commercialization of this religious product in Italy and does get the Region to Italian homes of hundreds of thousands of Catholics. "
The recent visit of the Bishop of Brescia the Region has strengthened the decision of Opera Romana visiting Caravaca and it is expected that soon, operators OVET (the travel agency of the Archdiocese of Bergamo), Rusconi (the largest tour operator Lombardy and one of the largest in Italy) or IOT Viaggi Pordenone (wholesale very present in several Italian dioceses) sign agreements and include the region in their brochures for 2017.
Hernandez stressed that the Jubilee Year of Caravaca "will be an event of special religious, cultural and tourist interest, covering many areas and aims to become the main attraction of the region in 2017".
Also, the Minister recalled that "the Way of the Cross is a project of economic, tourist and social transformation for the Region of Murcia and its hinterlands, given the potential of this offer, which is reflected in recent data World Tourism organization, according to 85 percent of international tourists which could be interested in religious destinations ".
Italian market
During the Jubilee Year 2010, the average stay of Italian tourists in the region was between three and seven days, with 5 percent of the total visitors from abroad.
Italy was the fifth country that attracted tourists, behind the United Kingdom, Ireland, Mexico and Ecuador.
The websites, travel agencies and tour operators were the major channels promoting Jubilee Year of Caravaca de la Cruz 2010, and most Italian tourists traveled in organized groups or families.
Tour operators invited by the Tourism Institute have shown special interest not only in the visit to Caravaca de la Cruz and the Castle-Sanctuary and museum of the Wine Horses, but also the Museum of Embroidery Lorca, both Step white as the Paso Blue, as well as the Monastery of Our Lady of Hope Calasparra or Tower of the Cathedral of Murcia, considering these very interesting experience for its customers.
Source: CARM
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