A jewel on Colombia’s Caribbean coast wants a better class of visitor
Colombia had trouble attracting tourists. Few wanted to visit a country where drug lords bombed passenger jets and guerrillas kidnapped ordinary citizens. The country became safer after the government began peace talks with the, the largest guerrilla group, in 2012 . When the shooting stopped, the first destination for many tourists was Cartagena.
Too much tourism strains the sewage system, which overflows during rains. Restaurant tables and chairs have conquered the plazas and bars and occupy some of the bastions that jut out from seaside walls. Rooftop bars and home-grown cocaine attract party animals from Europe and the United States. Pimps operating from nightclubs offer them under-age prostitutes. Music blasts until dawn.
Just 4,200 people now live in the city centre, a third the number of residents in colonial times. “Cartagena has become this machine that excludes those who cannot afford to pay for a mediocre overpriced drink,” says Eduardo Rojas, a lecturer on heritage preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. But it is also a machine for employment. Tourism makes up a third of the city’s economy. More than half ofCovid-19 restrictions have wiped out those earnings.
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