“Tourism appears to be the most dynamic sector of the national economy,” said Lammens.
According to official reports, more than 500 thousand trips by non-resident tourists were made to Argentina in August, with a projected economic impact of 417 million dollars, which will position it as the best monthly record for August in the series that began in 2000. For the fifth consecutive month, tourist movement exceeded pre-pandemic figures in our country.
According to the report from the National Directorate of Markets and Statistics of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Nation, there were more than 4.6 million trips by foreign tourists to our destinations between January 1 and August 31, 2023, which which generated the income of 3,598 million dollars to our economy, according to projections.
“Argentina is consolidating itself as a regional leader in the recovery of inbound tourism. These figures, which mark a new historical record, are the result of the work that we have been carrying out with Minister Sergio Massa and, to a large extent, the result of the strategy that we designed together with Aerolíneas Argentinas, which added routes and flights from abroad during the winter to bring more international tourists to the country. Today, tourism appears to be the most dynamic sector of the national economy in generating employment and foreign exchange,” said the Minister of Tourism and Sports of the Nation, Matías Lammens.
Uruguay (20.6%), Chile (19.3%), Brazil (18.8%), United States (7.7%), Paraguay (7.7%), Bolivia (3.4%), Spain (2.6%), Peru (2.4%), Colombia (1.8%) and France (1.7%) topped the ranking of origin of tourists who arrived in the country in the first eight months of the year. Uruguay, Chile and the United States were the markets that grew the most compared to the pre-pandemic.
For its part, the most used border crossings were the Ezeiza Airport (20.6%), the Jorge Newbery Airport (12.4%), the Buenos Aires Port (10.9%), the Gualeguaychú-Fray Bentos Pass ( 7.5%), the Tancredo Neves International Bridge (6.4%), the Cardenal Samoré Pass (4.4%) and the Cristo Redentor Pass (3.9%).
Source: Ambito
