During every Wednesday in February, after 20 hours in the Cultural Hall Cajamurcia, will address the tourism from different perspectives.
Emiliano Hernandez, coordinator of the Culture and Josefa Perez, head of the Office of Tourism in our area, presented the tourism conference, which was unable to attend the Councillor for Culture.
This weekend was held FITUR, where Jumilla, through the stand of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and Tour through Spain, has been present through different material and informative tour of our cultural heritage.
For this endeavor of the Department in developing the culture of our town, "they decide to be Conference is around the holidays, a rising economic area that must be promoted, and where we all must act," said Hernandez.
The Department of Culture and Tourism, aims to spread both cultural and heritage tourism, and so, with the development of this conference seeks to compare and exchange opinions and people sectors related to tourism, for, afterwards, do an internal analysis how is tourism in our town, and discover the strengths and opportunities that we promote.
Tourism in 2012 compared to 2011 has increased by 14% in our locality, figures rising to be fostered through the search for ways to exploit the cultural, natural and Jumilla wine benefit tourism.
In these three aspects Jumilla has great potential, and also learning from what people tell us during the conference outside and ending with a round table will be apparent how different perspectives are tourism, said Hernandez.
Spain is a world leader in tourism.
Tourism in Spain accounts for 10% of gross domestic product, and remains one of the booming sectors which is not affected by the crisis and continues to grow moderately.
The Ministry, in its Strategic Plan for Tourism, has called it a resource creator of jobs and wealth dragging other economic sectors.
Therefore, in Jumilla is already working around tourism and cultural tourism, wanting also to stress and go beyond promoting active tourism in nature with leisure activities, leisure and environmental education as hiking, biking ... it we have a very broad term that could be exploited in this sense, so also will Antares Nature and Adventure in a conference scheduled in this conference are female Josefa Perez.
The conference will be held throughout the month of February, on Wednesdays from 20 hours in the Cultural Hall of CajaMurcia, except on Wednesday 20 February, starting an hour earlier, with a theatrical visit the Ethnographic Museum and Natural Sciences.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla