The hotel occupancy in August has been a marked increase over previous years.
So, hotels have closed up 8% reserve the same period in 2014.
The end stage of the Tour of Spain has been what has gathered the best hotel occupancy figures.
Catering establishments registered city, on the evening of Saturday 29 to Sunday 30, 67.5% of reserves.
According to data obtained in the past month, this figure represents an increase of 75% over the average daily occupancy in August.
Councilman Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, explained that "these data show that Murcia is able to host major events so that the government team continue to work on developing a calendar of events of national and international interest , cultural, sporting or leisure nature, in order to double visitor arrivals to the municipality and consolidate Brand Murcia ".
Thus, Pacheco added that "holding competitions at national and international levels and major sporting events contribute to the economic development of our city."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia