Caribenet website, Under Attack...????

Web authors spend hours on investigating site statistics: Where do our readers come from, how long do they stay, where do they go, what are the readers looking for? Is the traffic increasing, decreasing, stable? While Cartagena tourism raised by 40% within 2005 the number of visitors on caribenet.com tripled. But last week we got a litlle nervous: From day to day our hits went to numbers we would never expect for a small webpage about a small caribbean destination. Initially we investigated a possible denial of service attack and searched for defaced subdomains. Good news though: The reason for the increased interest in Cartagena were three newspaper articles in USA Today, CNN and New York Times within one week.On 14th of march USA Today dedicated an article to a new kind of tourism: Tourists heading to Colombia for plastic surgery states that more than 30.000 tourists headed to Colombia for medical treatments.

CNN goes tough with Colombia cleaning up drugs-and-violence image but reports good news on Colombia hoting the World Tourism Organization's 2007 convention in Cartagena, "whose reputation for beach-combing, stunning colonial architecture and all-night partying has long made it one of the Caribbean's top destinations." - The author does not forget to mention Pablo Escobar and ends with the statement "I wouldn't recommend the place for a family vacation just yet." by a guidebook editor named Laura Kidder, who in fact never did a guide on Colombia.

Definitely worth to read is the New York Times article Going to Cartagena by Tailor Holliday. Sin doubt the author strolled through the walled city and found the most intesting attractions. His recomendations include webmasters favourite activities (just walking in the old town), restaurants and bars. - Some of these places we like that much that we wouldn't even recommend it to tourists on this page! Excellent: Going to Cartagena Interesting: Tourists heading to Colombia for plastic surgery Hoemework: Colombia cleaning up drugs-and-violence image

LINK:

http://portal.caribenet.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86

By NewBoy on Apr 3, 2006, 10:54 in Friendly Talkzone.

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