“Argentina has enormous tourist potential, with first class destinations throughout the country. Tourism is undoubtedly one of our federal growth engineswhich can create thousands of quality jobs for our people and increase our income, as it also has a positive impact in other areas such as gastronomic industry, transport and culture”, indicated the Head of Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
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Buenos aires city
How important is air connectivity?
However, from the organization they warned that the recovery of tourism has a ceiling if it is not recovered air connectivity.
“Throughout the world, tourism is starting to recover to pre-pandemic levels. In the City we also see a sustained recoverybut the reactivation has a ceiling if we do not recover the levels of connectivity that we had in 2019when international tourism reached a record“, Held Fernando StrafaceSecretary General and International relations of the City and president of VisitBAthe public-private agency with international projection.
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america recovery
Thus, according to the World Tourism Organizationthe Argentina is the country of region that shows the least recoverywith one of 46% of international tourism compared to 2019, while Uruguay record a 70% of recovery and Mexico a 84%. For his part, Dominican Republic Y Colombia They have already managed to exceed the levels of international tourism prior to the pandemic, with growth of 6.9% Y 2.1% respectively.
In this way, the connectivity impacted the most important markets for Buenos AiresWhat Brazilwhich currently only recovered in a 40% with respect to 2019. Uruguay shows a stronger recovery with a 84%while the markets of Chili (52%), USA (47%) and Spain (50%) are still very far from the levels of 2019. In the event that our country had recovered at the same rate as the region, we would have received around 500 thousand more tourists and they would have entered US$605 million extra dollars.
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“Recovering tourism both nationally and internationally is essential for the country’s economy. The tourism generate work in transportation, hotels, gastronomy, culture and many other sectors. It is important that Argentina, and the City of Buenos Aires, which is the Entrance to the countryreturn to enter the world”, he explained Lucas Delfinopresident of the City Tourism Agency.
cruise season
Among the segments that recovered the most, the 2022-2023 cruise seasonwith 127 landfalls Y 349,000 passengerswith levels very similar to those reached in 2019-2020, before the pandemic. Also, since VisitBA they stressed that the 70% of the cruise ships that will arrive this season have more than 2,000 passengers.
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Business tourism
On the other hand, the Business tourisma segment where Buenos Aires is one of the most competitive cities in the worldattracted this year 767 international events. Since Visit BA They affirmed that the return of large face-to-face eventswith a massive audience: the 78% of the events were face-to-face, the fifteen% hybrids and only one 7% they were virtual.
Also, from the Tourism Agency highlighted the positive impact of Hotel Sector Promotion Regime penalized in 2018. The regulation grants tax incentives for the remodeling, expansion and improvement of hotels, and seeks improve the competitiveness of the hotel infrastructure in the City.
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Buenos Aires Tourism
So, since 2019projects have been presented, which to date have approved credit about 14, for a total amount of private investment of $278,452,693.01 million and a total tax credit granting of $135,857,351.13, and there are 4 more projects in the process of approving the investment project.
“The hotel industry It is one of the main pillars to generate that a destination is competitive at the tourist level, along with a strong private sector and investments let them keep it The creation of this law is a good support policy for the sector, it allowed us to generate a key investment for improve hotel infrastructure that it lagged behind other destinations in the region and was badly hit by the pandemic,” Delfino said.
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Buenos Aires Tourism
Also, the president of the Tourism Agency anticipated that in 2023 they will search extend the standardto include incentives for the construction of new hotels that incorporate spaces for MICE events.
Source: Ambito
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