THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 12 ‐ 16 Issue No. 5 (1973) 27 April - 3 May 2023
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EXCITING TIMES: Tourists love parades.
er factors. Many businesses used the quiet period after the pandemic to make im‐ provements to their prod‐ ucts or services, impact‐ ing revenue. Credit is also given to the labour re‐
THE waters of the Mar Menor have been declared excellent quality for bathing this summer but we have been advised that the lagoon still has a fragile ecosystem. Eleven million euros has been allocated to the removal of biomass in the Mar Menor and this project will be ongoing until the end of summer. The biomass is removed to avoid decomposition protecting the sand so it doesn’t lose its tex‐ ture, as many beachgoers com‐ plained about the sludge‐like quality of the sand last summer. A total of €13 million was also as‐ signed to sanitation and purifica‐ tion in the entire lagoon. The Scientific Advisory Commit‐ tee of the Mar Menor has advised that there may be another ‘bloom of algae’ as the amounts of ‘nutri‐ ents’ that enter the Mar Menor in
form with 91 per cent of the workforce in the re‐ gion with stable fixed contracts creating a more content workforce lead‐ ing to an improvement in service and therefore an increase in revenue.
Exceltur also spoke about how the region is recovering its volume of visitors and this shows that even though there is added economic pressure this year people are still choosing to travel.
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Catherine McGeer THE best year ever for tourism in Murcia, was the prediction made by the President of the Mur‐ cia Region, Fernando López Miras at the begin‐ ning of the year. During the FITUR tourism fair in Madrid López Miras made these grand statements an‐ nouncing during a TV in‐ terview that it will be the best year for tourism not just better than the year before. So far these predictions are coming through with Murcia exceeding 2019 figures by 6.1 per cent in the first quarter. Exceltur, who has released these results, anticipates that in the second quarter, the Murcia Region is on track for an increase of 8.4 per cent. This increase is credited to a very successful Sem‐ ana Santa but also to oth‐
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EXCELLENT QUALITY: Enjoying the Mar Menor.
certain areas affect the balance of the ecosystem. Care will need to be taken when removing the
biomass as this helps control the balance and removing too much can also be harmful.
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Unemployment figures down UNEMPLOYMENT has fall‐ en by 776 people in the Cartagena area over the past year. This is mainly due to the hotel and catering in‐ dustry and the construction industry. The hospitality in‐ dustry created 515 new jobs in the last year and construction also contribut‐ ed to hiring 170 profession‐
als, mostly for jobs in Es‐ combreras and Navantia. Tourism has also helped as the La Manga region pre‐ pares for the summer sea‐ son. The Torre Pacheco re‐ gion also stands out in the number of contracts signed in March 2023, mostly mo‐ tivated by the agricultural activity in this area.