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The Councillor of Tourism of the Municipality of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, stressed that "tourism in Lorca is consolidated, as is shown by data on the number of tickets sold by the Tourist Consortium 'Lorca Taller del Tiempo' July 1 September 30 have led to an increase of 7.83% over the same period last year, which is not positioned as a leading cultural alternative in the summer season. "
"The work of promotion and improvement of tourism we are developing the hand of the autonomous region has meant that despite the crisis, the move from 14,956 to 16,128 visitors to the cultural offerings of the Fortress of the Sun, center visitors, the museums and archaeological municipal embroidered ", underlined the council.
Montiel has stressed that "this increase of 1,172 people who have gone through the box office in just three months ago, that figure will have increased the number of tourists who have visited the city just to meet our old town, our markets, the successful route from the top and our ever-expanding shopping and dining. "
Within this data is to outline the 14.28% increase in visits at night, which although they were less than three nights in 2008, has risen from 2,031 to 2,321 in the last three months.
The Councillor of Tourism has shelled out the main elements of the whole range, such as visits to the Castle (10 075 night and day compared to 9,732 in 2008); Visitor Center (703 compared to 472), and tourist train (2,608 persons when in 2008 had been 1,800).
As to the origin is the increase of foreigners, who presumably spend a 28.31% to 30.05%, with 41.22% against the national 42.3% in 2008 and the citizens of the Region 28.73% of the tourists, when they pass over the year were 29.39% of the total.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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