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CORREOS presents in Barcelona its services for pilgrims of The Way.
The company is going to attend the tourism fair B-Travel, where is going to introduce among the visitors the luggage transport services stage by stage on the Camino or the shipment of suitcases and bicycles.
Catalonia is one of the first places of origin of the pilgrims who carry out the different Jacobean Routes, exceeding 13,600 in 2017.
Barcelona, April 19, 2018- CORREOS will attend the twenty-fifth edition of the B-Travel tourism fair in Barcelona. The postal and packaging company will have a stand in this reference event in which it will present to the attendees its main services for pilgrims who make the Camino de Santiago.
Catalonia is a key point on the Camino de Santiago, since it is one of the main places of origin of the pilgrims who make the different Jacobean Routes. In 2017, there were more than 13,600 Catalans who received the "Compostela", the document which certifies that they have made at least 100 kilometres on some of the roads to Santiago.
To solve the needs of pilgrims on the Camino, CORREOS has put at their disposal services such as the Paq Mochila – to transport the baggage stage by stage, which allows them to make the Camino without carrying the backpack -, the Paq Bicicleta – to send bicycles between any post office-, the Paq Peregrino -to send suitcases and packages- or the consignment service offered to the pilgrims in their office in Santiago, 2 minutes away from the cathedral.
In addition, visitors who come to the CORREOS stand may participate in several initiatives: sending physical and digital postcards, raffles for a pack for the Camino, etc.
CORREOS at the Salón International de Turismo –B-Travel.
CORREOS will have a new stand on D Street in Hall 8 of Fira. It will be assisted by a score of postal workers who will announce the services of the Camino and will encourage visitors to participate in different activities to obtain prizes. The director of CORREOS in Zone 3 (Catalonia), Carlos Chimeno, will also attend the inauguration.
The stand will have a simple contest in which visitors can participate in a contest for a pack of products of the Camino de Santiago: a Philatelic Credential with a sleeve, a cap, a pen-drive of the Camino, a notebook, etc.
You will also have a photocall in which you can take animated photographs that will be sent to the chosen addressee through the My Postal application. This APP allows you to create and send postcards made up from a photograph or image, incorporating messages, emojis and even videos where the postcard comes to life. CORREOS is in charge of printing, enveloping, postage and shipping. Thanks to this application addressees can receive in the mailboxes of their homes congratulations and original memories of their trips.
Finally, the stand of El Camino with Correos is one of the protagonists of the "B-Travel Passport, the passport that the tourism fair makes available to all visitors so they can enter the raffle for prizes and discounts for travelling worth more than 20,000 euros.
More information for pilgrims in Correos’ webpage.
Correos has created for the pilgrims the web www.elcaminoconcorreos.com , where it offers all the information of its services in nine languages, including Catalan. The portal has detailed information on the different routes, with the advice of more than 150 postmen, who give clues to pilgrims about places that cannot be missed. It also offers information about all the lodgings - hostels, hostels and hotels - which they can choose in any of their routes.
Also, it offers a simple web application for where you can hire the transport of luggage stage by stage on the following link: http://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/paqmochila.