Unemployment figures down

UNEMPLOYMENT has fall‐en by 776 people in the Cartagena area over the past year. This is mainly due to the hotel and catering in‐dustry and the construction industry. The hospitality in‐dustry created 515 new jobs in the last year and construction also contribut‐ed to hiring 170 profession‐ als, mostly for jobs in Es‐combreras and Navantia. form with 91 per cent of the workforce in the re ‐gion with stable fixed contracts creating a more content workforce lead ‐ing to an improvement in service and therefore an increase in revenue.

Tourism has also helped as the La Manga region pre‐pares for the summer sea‐son. The Torre Pacheco re‐gion also stands out in the number of contracts signed in March 2023, mostly mo‐tivated by the agricultural activity in this area.

Exceltur also spoke about how the region is recovering its volume of visitors and this shows that even though there is added economic pressure this year people are still choosing to travel.