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The City Council thanks the private entities for their contribution to make possible the extraordinary device of tourist attention during Holy Week (28/03/2018)

The Tourist Councilor has informed that the attention to visitors has increased more than 10% with respect to last year and all the localities put on sale for the processions of Friday of Dolores and Domingo de Ramos were sold out.

The Councilor for Tourism in the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, thanked the companies that collaborate with the City Council by contributing and / or sponsoring the multiple promotional actions and visitor assistance included within the tourism device prepared by the Municipal Executive.

Montiel Sánchez has stressed that the events that take place in our city on the occasion of Holy Week are undoubtedly a complex program, with a scope and impact on the city that each year reaches greater dimensions.

Without the involvement of many anonymous Lorca and the great effort made by the brotherhoods, we would hardly enjoy an event with the enormous doses of magnificence, art and success that we can contemplate throughout these days.

That is why the administration, through the Department of Tourism, wants to publicly thank the companies that have wanted to collaborate with the special organization that takes place these days.

The Tourism Edil explained that this extraordinary device aims to serve the visitor with the highest levels of quality both in attention to the public, with an increase in points and time of information, and with the promotional forms that are distributed so that all those who visit us know better the different activities of these days and the order of procession of the characters of the procession of Good Friday.

We are talking about a guide published in both Spanish and English, given the significant increase in foreign visitors that the city is receiving in general and that is accentuated during the days of Easter.

Francisco Montiel has signed the corresponding agreements between the Consistory, Ceclor and Chamber of Commerce, as well as with the companies Centro Comercial Almenara, Excacivil and Cydemir, collaborations in addition to Escala Imagen, Cajamar, sponsoring the printing of the Holy Week Program and Obra Social La Caixa, with the prize of the Easter Week Poster contest.

This creation is the work of photographer Lorca David Giner, for his work Jinetear, is being distributed since last January.

The Councilor for Tourism has anticipated, with respect to the evolution of attendance of visitors to our biblical-passional Holy Week processions, which, taking into account the data we are recording and the forecasts that are being considered in the sector, we are at the doors of get a historic Holy Week in what concerns the hotel and tourism sector, enjoying the best occupancy data, which are being above the forecasts that were shuffled by the establishments themselves.

From the City Council we want to congratulate the professionals of the sector, whose effort is making possible that the enhancement of tourism as an integrating part of the process of economic diversification of our municipality advances with better and better data.

Francisco Montiel has indicated, in addition, that the number of attentions made by the personnel that provide service within the extraordinary device of Holy Week between the days included from Friday of Dolores to Palm Sunday has also increased with respect to last year, registering a 10.83% rise.

Mention should be made of those made to foreign visitors, which have risen by 46.42% in reference to 2017.

The Councilor for Tourism has also highlighted that the sale of chairs to be able to witness the processions of Friday of Dolores and Domingo de Ramos has ratified its success, since all the localities put up for sale from the Steps were sold out, which constitutes an excellent news for our city.

We are in a position to affirm that the decision of this Municipal Administration to sell the chairs for these parades has resulted in a real success, and is especially practical for those who acquire them, since they enjoy a specific place in the boxes with well in advance to be able to attend other classic events of the processions such as the exit of images and collection of flags.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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