According to data from National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), the fall in the hotel occupancy in November 2024. The data is expressed after they registered 3.8 million travelers who spent the night in establishments arranged for tourism.
The report expressed the accommodation details in the different tourist regions. In that framework, the city of Buenos Aires was the one that received the most travelers in its hotels, with 23.2%, while the Patagonia had 20.8% of the total tourists. Even so, in both the number of people who stayed overnight was reduced: 5.8% in Buenos Aires establishments and 11.1% in Patagonian establishments.
On the other hand, the regions where the number of tourists who stopped in hotels grew were the province of Buenos Aires (11.1%); the Litoral (6.8%) and Córdoba (6.4%). Other tourist attraction areas also expressed a drop in their number of travelers. It is the case of northwestern argentinawith a year-on-year reduction of 7.7%and the Whosewith a decrease of 2.9%.
Summer 2025: the most visited destinations throughout the country
The Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Sports of the Nation revealed details about the first fortnight of 2025where they also project a movement of more than 3.9 million tourists in national destinations throughout January, with a total projected expenditure of $579,803 millionwhich would mean a 10% increase if compared to the same period in 2024.
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In breakdown, during the first fortnight of the year, the occupation of Iguazú (80%), Bariloche (79%), Villa La Angostura (86), Pinamar (80) and Las Grutas (89).
Likewise, there was a 10% growth in hotel occupancy in Mar del Plata compared to January 2024, something that was also seen in Córdoba, with 18%. Other destinations that saw increases were Mendoza, with 5%, and the Iguazú Falls that had 18 thousand more visitors, so they exceeded 77 thousand in total.
Regarding the ways of transporting, some 250 thousand passengers chose Aerolíneas Argentinas to travel between the end of the year 2024 and the beginning of 2025. The company has more than 70 weekly frequencies to Bariloche, more than 50 to Mendoza and Ushuaia, 48 to Iguazú, and more than 30 to Salta, Tucumán, El Calafate and Mar del Plata, and 18 to San Martín de los Andes during the summer season. Under this framework, if the total of all passengers who flew on different companies is added, it gives a total of 1,538,676 people.
World tourism recovered in 2024 the level it had before the pandemic
More than 1.4 billion tourists took a trip abroad in 2024, the same number as before the pandemicaccording to an estimate published Monday by UN Tourism.
According to this agency, The number of international tourist trips was 11% higher than in 2023 (1.3 billion), thus reaching the level of 2019, the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic and the date of the previous record.
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International travel was boosted by the current recovery of travel destinations. Asia and the Pacificin addition to the increase in air connectivity and visa facilitation. Middle East experienced a 29% increase over 2019 during this nine-month period, while Europe (+1%) and Africa (+6%) also exceeded these pre-pandemic levels.
For its part, America recovered 97% of the arrivals it registered five years ago. Asia and the Peaceful They reached 85% pre-pandemic, compared to the 66% recovery recorded in 2023.
Source: Ambito

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