Murcia should welcome every month a unique and attractive event to attract visitors and encourage them to participate to Murcia.
This was reiterated today the Mayor in presenting Murcia Gastronomic, which "represents a quantum leap, a leap of excellence, and so must be the events we do, that can not be stuck in the past, but they have to have elements of innovation, modernity and cosmopolitanism. "
"The food can be a mechanism for generating employment for the city, since the big events attract visitors who generate wealth," said Ballesta, who has stressed the intention of the City of Murcia avails events of this nature, which provide direct benefits to the city, because "it is not only the influx of Murcia who go to visit him, but the people who will come from other places."
Murcia Gastronomic, which this year celebrates its fourth edition and has already made a significant dent in the national culinary scene, will bring "great benefits and stimulus for a society that needs such identity and the illusion to keep going," he says the Mayor, who participated in the ceremony along with the leaders of the Institute of Cultural Industries and Arts and Tourism Qualification Center, Marta and Carmen Lopez-Briones Reverte, respectively, the Director General of truth, Antonio González, and Sergio Gallego, director of Murcia Gourmet.
In his speech, José Ballesta said the importance of organizing events like this, with a varied program of activities and proposals that contribute to "a city has a reputation, which has a name and brand image," qualities that holds this congress "to be held in the Auditorium Victor Villegas from 13 to 16 November, organized by" The Truth ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia