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Councillor for Public Works, Roque Ortiz, Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco and the councilman of Traffic and Public Safety, Lola Sanchez, accompanied by the president of the campers Association of the Region of Murcia (Ac-Mur) José Lucas, presented this morning the construction project of the new area for the RV.
This facility will be created between Princess Letizia Avenue and Avenue of Madrid, next to the Thader shopping center, as this is a strategic area for this type of tourism as it is on a major road core and has in its vicinity with all kinds of services such as shops, public transport, restaurants, supermarkets and gas station LPG, among others.
It will have an area of ​​nearly 5,677 square meters where you can park up to 42 motorhomes surface.
Users have a system of tank waste water, drinking water supply, lighting and trees.
Councillor for Public Works, Roque Ortiz, explained that this new infrastructure will be "high quality and highest European level" and that the project has been made "taking into account all the suggestions of the sector".
This initiative aims to promote tourism motorhomes, which is necessary to create adequate space for them, favoring roaming travel without booking accommodation and encouraging overnight stays of tourists in the city.
Councillor for Traffic and Public Safety, Lola Sanchez, explained that "we chose this location because it is a core of railcars access to our city, adding this infrastructure to the extensive network of park and ride on the outskirts of the city that allows, intermodal way, access to the center by public transport "
For his part, Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, indicated that "thanks to this new facility can create programs designed especially for these tourists, as this new car park will incorporate Murcia in the circuits of this type of tourism in order to reach our town users motorhomes other regions and the rest of Europe ".
Pacheco noted that "this infrastructure will improve our tourist projection, allowing generate attracting more visitors to our town, with the logical consequence of increasing revenues, tourism and hence employment"
According to various studies, users of more than 30,000 motor homes surveyed in Spain generate about 147 million euros a year in tourism.
"In a very short time the investment will result in benefits tourism in our town," he pointed Pacheco.
Some 200,000 motorhomes with more than 500,000 tourists visit Spain each year, spending about 280 million euros.
Motorcaravanning activity has different qualities as the extension of the tourist season, the revitalization of rural areas, promoting little known areas, the dissemination of historical, gastronomical, landscape and cultural heritage and empowerment of local commerce.
Ortiz explained that this project "is part of the City Strategy as a large modern city like Murcia had to offer this service.
so we offer the ability to access campers comfortable and agile to the city of Murcia "way.
The City will invest 250,000 euros in these facilities, which, according to forecasts, will become operational in the spring of next year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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