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Municipal museums and archaeological sites received more than 12,000 visitors in 2019 and group visits increased by 85 percent 'Tourism is making Yecla an important tool for the diversification of our economy' As every year Yecla is present at FITUR .
Madrid hosts one more year at this reference fair in the world of tourism, this year the Department of Tourism of our town hall has been the main attraction of the Holy Week in Yeclana.
The mayor of Yecla, Marcos Ortuño, has been supporting this presentation in Madrid and taking stock of what the rise of domestic tourism is implying for Yecla.
"Tourism is making Yecla a perfect tool to help diversify our economic activity and open up new possibilities to complement our great engine that is the furniture industry and to promote our wines with the Wine Route," said Marcos Ortuño.
The mayor of Yecla has stressed that 'the idea on which our tourism plan revolves is that of attracting those people who already know us by our wines or by our furniture and who visit us and know the place and history of where they have come out those magnificent products. '
And is that Marcos Ortuño has declared that 'the data is supporting this idea.
During the past year we have had a 9 percent growth in visits to our museums and archaeological sites.
More than 12,000 people visited these facilities.
On the other hand, the most significant increase was 85 percent in the request for information for group visits. '
'Yeclana Holy Week is another one of those great attractions that Yecla treasures.
A holiday that lives up to any of those celebrated within the Region of Murcia.
A Holy Week that, in the last decades, has grown exponentially in quantity and quality and that is a perfect claim to visit our town during its celebration because it treasures a tradition, a history, an art and a gastronomy that make it unique ', said to end the mayor of Yecla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla
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