Merchants and tour operators from Maldonado and Rocha expressed their concern about the low influx of visitors.
The exchange difference with Argentina Not only does it continue to wreak havoc in the shops of the coastal departments, but, after the exodus of Uruguayans to the neighboring country during these winter holidays, it also hit tourism in the east of the country collaterally.
Traders and tour operators from the departments of maldonado and rock They expressed their concern about the low influx of Argentine tourists and local visitors in recent days, something that became more evident in the first week of the early winter holidays, as reported by Channel 4.
The senator of Colorado Party (PC), Adrian Pena, met in the last hours at the Piriápolis Shopping Center with operators from both eastern departments. For Peña, there is “an extraordinary situation that is taking place in terms of an abysmal difference in the exchange rate”and “it affects tourism in an unprecedented way”.
In turn, he stressed that beyond the decrease in Argentine visitors, it is worrying that many Uruguayans who chose to spend their weekends in piriapolis or in some other town in the east, “they are choosing another destination”like Argentina, “and that’s what’s complicated,” he said.
For the legislator, the problem is already “it transcends the logic of the coast, where there is a greater implication” and it affected the entire country, because there are “certain goods that Uruguayans who go to Argentina buy and enter” the country, distorting local trade.
Adrián Peña sent some measures to Lacalle Pou to combat the exchange difference
Peña, pointed out that he sent some proposals to the president Luis Lacalle Pouand that some of them are being sought to be included in the next Accountability.
Among the measures of the ex-minister of Atmospherethere is one related to “administrative conditions, to perceive a greater sense of control and that there are risks if more merchandise is brought in than what is authorized to enter”, and another to “a system of charging for the excess of superior merchandise to a certain amount.”
Source: Ambito
