The economic impact of the multiple sports activities that take place outdoors was enhanced after the pandemicstood out from the aicacypentity integrated by the industrialists and merchants of the items of the sector.
He tourism It is one of the most important economic activities in the country, whose geography allows multiple leisure activities to be carried out in the open air, they highlighted from the entity.
In the first three quarters of 2022, Argentines made 49.4 million trips within the countrya figure equivalent to the all those registered in 2018 and 2019according to the Household Travel and Tourism Survey (EVyTH) published by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.
All this represented approximately US$4.6 billion generated by tourisman amount of which an important part corresponds to outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, hunting, sport fishing, camping, sailing, snow sports and flora and fauna watchingamong other.
To this economic movement we must add the impact of the equipment needed to carry out these activities.
One of these activities is campingwith 4.6 million Argentines who do it40% once a year and 44% between two and five times, which means about 12 million departures.
In the case of consumption of camping products, in 2022 439 thousand tents entered the country of all kinds that added to the national ones take that figure to exceed 500 thousand units sold, twice as much as in 2019for about US$30 million.
If you add the rest of the necessary implements for campingfigures of magnitude are reached: 51.3% of those surveyed purchased these products in the last year, a percentage equivalent to more than two million people.
During 2022, more than 30,000 mountain bikes entered the country that generate retail sales of around US$18 million ($7.2 billion).
The sport fishing, a market supplied by a thousand businesses throughout the country, reflects this economic movement: In 2022, more than 760,000 rods and more than 780,000 fishing reels entered the country; and 40% of the fishermen changed the rod or the reel; Adding hooks, sinkers and nylon, an economic movement of around US$ 50 million was generated in businesses throughout the country.
According to a survey carried out by the entity, some 42 million annual fishing trips51% round trip during the day, 40% on weekends and 9% up to a week, which is equivalent to about 50 million overnight stays.
Considering the sum of $5,000 as average daily expenditure of tourism according to the EVyTH, the fisherman spills some US$1,200 million into the local economies.
Meanwhile, within the activities carried out in particular by foreign tourists, there is the hunt: In addition to paying for the compulsory licenses, a foreign hunter who comes to Argentina spends an average of between US$300 and 500 per day (which includes the hunting service, organized by a preserve, accommodation with full board, etc.).
Only in The Pampawhere the hunting tourism, a total of 877 hunting licenses were issued in 2022; With an average stay of three days, foreign tourists left more than one million dollars in La Pampa.
Source: Ambito
