In addition to income, these events serve to promote the town
The municipality of Murcia is converted from 4 to 7 October in the seat of XXIX Congress of the Spanish Society for Quality in Health Care and VIII Regional Congress of Quality in Health Care, which will involve 600 people.
This is one of the major conferences that Murcia will host this year.
Meetings will be held in the Auditorium and Congress Center Víctor Villegas.
The aim is to promote health system change to achieve improved quality and raise awareness of the Spanish Foundation for Quality Care as a new tool for quality.
Councillor for Tourism, Miguel Cascales, has presented this event with Gomis Rafael Cebrián, President of the Society of Quality Care Murcia and President of the Organizing Committee, and Manuel Alcaraz Quiñonero, Chairman of the Scientific Committee and Manager of the Arrixaca.
According to the Convention Bureau of the Department of Tourism of the Municipality of Murcia, the economic impact of this meeting in the municipality is of 615,000 euros.
The calculation includes four nights accommodation, meals, conference fee and pocket money for extra expenses (shopping, entertainment, gifts, etc).
Lawmakers mostly come from Madrid, Andalusia, Catalonia, Valencia and Castilla La Mancha.
The themes of the conferences tend to be mainly economic and commercial sector, cultural and health.
The congressman's profile is male, Spanish, 45, who visited the city in its own vehicles, 44% of the cases together, which remains in the city an average of three days and staying at a hotel Four stars.
Lawmakers are often interested in knowing the city (monuments, cultural events and gastronomy).
Cascales, indicates that now promote this type of tourism is also an important source of income for the city, a way to publicize and promote Murcia within the professional environment.
Quality Surveys conducted by the Office of Conferences each year, 92% of respondents expressed their intention to return to the city with family or friends as tourists.
During the last quarter of the year is scheduled to be held other national conferences and seminars among which we can highlight the National Conference on Advances in Medicine, the National Congress of the Spanish Federation of Pueri Cantores International Congress Autism Congress Diversity, Quality and Equity in Education, International Conference on Law, Computer Science and Criminology from others, besides holding other conferences and meetings of regional and local levels.
Murcia city is consolidated as conferences, meetings and events.
1128 During 2010 meetings were held in the municipality, with a total of 174,046 attendees.
The economic impact recorded last year is 36.2 million euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia