Tourism impacts the GDP in Cartagena de Indias

Travellers who arrived in the capital that left 2.3 billion pesos in 2014.

Visitors who arrived in Cartagena de Indias in 2014 spent about 1.023 billion dollars, a sum equivalent to 7.3% of annual GDP of Bolivar in the period.

This was announced Zully Salazar Fuentes, chief executive of the Tourism Corporation Cartagena de Indias, highlighting the importance of tourism to the economy of the city, which, according to the official, the average exchange rate in 2014, that year was admitted around 2.3 billion pesos for this concept.

According to Salazar Fuentes, the figures refer to projections made by the Tourism Information System of Cartagena de Indias (Sitcar).

“This is an important figure for Cartagena de Indias, and even more so if one considers that the money spent by tourists in the city is divided between many subsectors of the economy, and among many people who exercise various trades” Zully Salazar said Fuentes.

Source: Portafolio.co
Date: August 28, 2015
http://www.portafolio.co/economia/turismo-impacta-el-pib-cartagena-indias