The largest tourism fair in Latin America begins in the City of Buenos Aires

The largest tourism fair in Latin America begins in the City of Buenos Aires

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Patagonia Entity

Travel agencies and tour operators will offer you promotions to travel around the country, accommodation, gastronomy, excursions, car rental and various activities in the destinations special prices.

Monday and Tuesday will be days of only official and professional activities -from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.- to develop marketing options with the classic ones FIT Business Rounds -in a special pavilion and with a new format to optimize times, comfort and results- in which opportunities for growth and exchange will be offered to all the players in the sector.

Within this framework, there will be numerous scheduled meetings between local receptive operators and foreign issuersto attract international visitors and sell tour packages.

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FIT Latin America

The FIT is organized by the Argentine Federation of Associations of Travel and Tourism Companies (Faevit) and the Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies of Buenos Aireswith the comprehensive realization of Argentine Fairs and the sponsorship of Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Minturdep).

The 2021 edition was held in December due to the coronavirus pandemic, to include more outdoor activities in the already summery weather and thus reduce internal capacity, and received some 73,000 people. But this year the sanitary conditions allowed it to return to its traditional date of early spring.

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FIT Latin America

The Minturdep will have in this edition two stands -one will be institutional and the other promotional- and a space dedicated to National holidays. On the one hand, the institutional stand will have an auditorium for activities related to initiatives such as the plan Pre-Trip, The Nature Route, Country Brand, Argentine Festivals, Argentine Experiences, Promote Federal and Sustainable Tourism, Activate+ and the Jesuit Road.

In the same space there will be exhibitions on the policies carried out in terms of Social Tourism, Tourist Quality, Training Y Travel agencyand a platform will be presented on tourism investments.

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FIT Latin America

In the promotional stand, actions will be carried out such as a tasting with the slogan “Argentina, land of wines” and the delivery of Country Brand to the End of the World Train Yet the Rosario River Station. While in the space dedicated to Argentine Festivals Attractive shows representative of traditional celebrations from all over the country will be presented.

Federal and regional organizations will also have their spaces in the FIT, such as the Federal Council of Tourism and the Tourism Entity Patagonia Argentinaas well as private sector corporate entities, such as the Argentine Chamber of Tourism (CAT), the Gastronomic Hotel Business Federation of the Argentine Republic and the Argentine Confederation of Medium Enterpriseswhich has a specific area of ​​Tourism.

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FIT Latin America

The technology will be present with FIT-Techa space created in the last editions where new trends and tools for the growth of the industry come together, and in which conferences will be given with guests from all over the world on Innovation, Technology, Hospitality and global problems of tourism.

The president of the FIT, Gustavo Hannitold Télam Radio that “the FIT is today the third largest (tourism) fair in the world. It is where is all the tourism sector in the world“.

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FIT Latin America

The also president of CAT and Faevyt said that with “all the provinces, 52 countries present, many municipalities, it will be a great fairwe surpass all the exhibition meters, we are 100%so people go to visit it because they are going to find all the folklore, music, gastronomy, tourist promotions, discounted packages and others for all Argentina and the world“.

“All provinces and all tour operators make a amazing betthe same as the countries, all the gastronomy of the world”, emphasized Hani, who had already stated that this year “The challenge is to be above 100,000 visitors”.

From the Tourism portfolio, the secretary of Tourist Promotion, Yanina Martinezaffirmed that “the FIT is the place to meeting of all the actors of the activity and a perfect example of the power of joint work between the public and private sectors”. “We bet that this new edition will be, once again, scenario of actions, businesses and proposals to continue promoting tourism and advancing on the path of growth”, added the official.

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Tickets to the Fair can be purchased at the ticket office from La Rural. The general price is $800 and, for tourism students and retirees, $600. Children under 10 accompanied by adults and people with a certificate of disability enter no fee.

Source: Ambito

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