Tourism Councilwoman Joan Guardiola has announced the participation of Jumilla in the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) 2011, held from 19 to 23 January.
The city will be present through wine tourism and religious tourism.
The early days of the fair, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are for professionals, businesses and institutions and the weekend is open to the public.
Jumilla, and shows all the promotional material available, will develop various promotional activities to publicize the tourism resources are there in the city.
Thus, the municipality will be at the IFEMA Pavilion No. 7 in two stands: in the Spanish Association of Wine Cities (ACEVIN) through the Wine Routes of Spain and the Region of Murcia.
At the booth of ACEVIN, Jumilla take place on Thursday from 16:00 to 17:00, a presentation of the Jumilla Wine Route and a tasting of sweet wines.
Also on Saturday, also from 16:00 to 17:00 will develop a wine tasting with red wines from the cellars of the route.
For its part, the stand of the Region of Murcia, the format of choice is as a television studio with a presenter, a dash, a programming grid and interviews with the protagonists.
In this way, with images sent from the area of Tourism, have developed a series of videos and magazine theme.
Jumilla so that will be reflected in the magazine on "religious tourism", which is projected on Friday from 10:30 to 11:30 and "which will show our Holy Week and especially the 600 anniversary and Jubilee Caravaca" , said Guardiola.
Besides the other space will be present in the magazine Jumilla 'Food and Wine Tourism' to be screened on Saturday from 12:00 to 12:30 hours and where are the three designations of origin of the wine of the region and its Wine Routes , Jumilla, Yecla and Bullas, "something new, which had been demanding for almost eight years and I am glad that wine tourism has a presence in the stand of the Murcia region, since tourism is a very interesting option," said Councilwoman .
The head of Tourism has stated that in addition to several political and technical area of tourism, to the show have confirmed their presence President Jumilla Wine Route, as well as several representatives of the Central Board of the Brotherhood of Holy Week .
A lack of close to official statistics, the Councillor for Tourism has reported that visitor numbers in 2010 were very important, "although we lack post some data warehouses and museums, we can provide the data del Castillo, since its inauguration on 19 April and end of the year, received a total of 11,500 visits. "
Juana Guardiola has also reported that the upcoming tourist events in which will participate Jumilla Torrepacheco Regional Fair (18 to 20 February) and a sample to be held in Terrassa, between 18 and 20 March.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla