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Ensures Caravaca Jubilee Year 2017 will be "spearhead a new tourism product set permanently"
The 45 municipalities in the region are represented at Fitur with products like Easter, Carnival, various regional festivals, sun and beach tourism, nature and sports and gastronomy
The president of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, said today that "we are reaching agreements with regions such as Aragon to make the region from Caravaca, or there, one of the points of 'Temple Road' by Levante, we allowing traveling convents, churches and castles related to the history of the Knights Templar also deeply rooted in Caravaca de la Cruz ".
Pedro Antonio Sánchez presented today in the commemoration of the Day of the Region of Murcia in the XXXVI International Tourism Fair, Fitur 2016, the project 'The Way of the Cross of Caravaca' and holding her next Jubilee Year (2017 ), with which the region "will have a different and differentiated tourism offer permanent, quality," as well as "new opportunities for job creation," remarked the President.
'The Way of the Temple' also happen for other municipalities, like Caravaca de la Cruz, have an architectural and historical heritage linked to the Knights Templar, so cities like Murcia, Jumilla, Bullas and Cehegín, among others would have a leading role.
Pedro Antonio Sanchez stressed that the Caravaca Jubilee Holy Year of 2017 "will be a before and after", as it is a "strategic project that not only want to celebrate the Holy Year, but it spearhead the design and configuration of a new tourist and cultural products of the region every year and permanently ".
To do this, we have designed more than a hundred of activities to be developed until 2017, Jubilee Year in which two million visitors are expected, compared with 2010 million and a half.
The president of the Community indicated that Fitur 2016 "becomes once again a showcase that Murcia fail to offer, not only to Spain but to the world, its magnificent tourism".
Besides the Jubilee Year 2017, the region leads this year Fitur until next Sunday, January 24, a wide and varied range of tourism products representing 45 municipalities.
The presentation of the 'Way of the Cross of Caravaca', which was held today by the president of the Community, joins the initiative 'Murcia, sporting destination all year', which was presented yesterday with ' Easter in Murcia ', including the celebrations of Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca, or also' Culture and Tourism desestacionalizador effect in the region of Murcia.
'Puerto Lumbreras, Star City', 'San Pedro del Pinatar, salty paradise' tourism campaign City of Lorca, the 'photocall' Ciudad de Murcia, the various regional festivals or Eagles Carnival and Cabeza de Torres also will star in this edition of Fitur, which is also promoted Murcia cuisine with various tastings of typical products.
All with the aim of promoting tourism in the region of Murcia and to continue to grow tourist arrivals, as reflected by the latest available data at the end of November 2015, which in 2015 produced a 3.5 percent rise in domestic tourism (143,000 more tourists) and close to 2 percent in international (12,000 more tourists).
It is anticipated that the final data at the end of 2015 are around 155,000 tourists more than in 2014. In addition, last year the best thing affiliation tour historical series was achieved.
Source: CARM
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