Quantitative and socioeconomic study of the bullfighting traditional in the Region Murcia (Spain)
Abstract
In this work some aspects related with the great tradition and the quantitative and socioeconomic importance of the bullfighting traditional shows in different towns of the Murcia Region have been treated. To do this have been posted all the bullfights held including the ETP, disaggregated by municipalities, which have been communicated to the official College of veterinarians in the last 8 years (2004-2011). For the socio-economic study, we have divided the ETP into two types; running bulls previous to the bullfighting and running or release of cattle without bullfighting. Survey to 150 attendees in the first type of ETP in Calasparra and Blanca and 200 attendees in the second type of ETP in Caravaca de la Cruz, Moratalla, Cehegín were realized. Also there have been 28 surveys to sentences of the towns in the Northwest, where they are held ETP. Bullfighting practically takes place in all the towns, in the last eight years in 42 of them, which represents the 95% of the towns. The increase of the percentage of bullfighting traditional shows with respect to the total of bullfighting shows from the 35% to the 53% in 2010, although is minor that average because for Spain bullfighting traditional shows represents the 81% of all bullfighting shows. With regard to the characteristics of the audience to this type of shows, are mainly people from other different towns, about 40 years old, and married so they can come with the family that increase the activity in the town and favor the level of expenses there. In connection with the preferences of the audience to running of bulls previous to the bullfighting, they prefer others types of bullfighting. Another datum to take into account is the high percentage of people that stay overnight, in the case of running of bulls previous to the bullfighting is of 40% against the 14% in the case of loosing and running of bulls without subsequent bullfighting. The average level of expenses by attending person to running of bulls previous to the bullfighting is of 50 €/day, the double that an attending person to loosing and running of bulls without subsequent bullfighting that is 25 €/day, mainly in catering in both cases.
In conclusion, the 71,1 % of the total of towns in the Murcia Region has been bullfighting traditional in the last eight years. The number of bullfighting traditional increasing until 2009, when took place 98 shows and represent the 48% of total. The audience bullfighting traditional are mainly people from other different towns, male, about 40 years old, and married so they can come with the family that increase the activity in the town and favor the level of expenses there, that is greater in shows with subsequent bullfighting.
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