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Mayor challenges collaborators Convention Bureau in 2019 to double the number of assistants and income for the city (10/12/2015)

The Mayor, José Ballesta, has launched a challenge to reviewers businessmen Convention Bureau for the end of these four Corporation has doubled the economic impact that the city receives as a result of this activity, and the number of visitors attending events.

This objective means that Murcia achieved in 2019 revenues of 50 million euros and around 500,000 people come to the city to participate in conferences and meetings.

"The challenge is clear," said the mayor, who has also indicated that, in his opinion, will be essential to achieve progress in the "internationalization and diversification".

Ballesta today celebrated the traditional Christmas meeting with partners from the Murcia Convention Bureau, which was also attended by the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, the president of the collaborating partners, Ricardo Zamora, and Office Director, Ramón Palazón.

Has referred to the economic recovery, "whose effects are beginning to be seen in the country," which has also been reflected in conference tourism in Murcia, whose direct economic impact last year improved by 19.5 percent from 2013, as a result, mainly, of greater spending by the audience, a fact that has not happened since 2007. Specifically, 190,000 people, with an average of almost 300 people per meeting, visited Murcia in 2014 thanks to the organization of conferences, with a direct economic impact in excess of 33.5 million euros city.

"But there is still much work, because we must ensure that Murcia is a great national benchmark and become a center of celebration of the most important conferences in our country," said the mayor, who also advanced that the estimates of 2015 data indicate that last year again surpass in arrival of congressmen and economic impact in Murcia, driven largely by improving communications with the rest of the country and in Europe thanks to the advent of high speed.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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