The President of the Republic once again highlighted the fact of the impossibility of action regarding the behavior of different prices of the exchange rate on the neighboring shore.
The words of the head of state took place within the framework of the commemoration of World Tourism Day, celebrated yesterday Tuesday in Melilla (Montevideo) and organized by the Uruguayan Chamber of Tourism. The minister of Work and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresand the minister of Tourism, Tabare Vieraamong other national authorities.
In his speech, Lacalle Pou He indicated that “in this exit from the pandemic there are sectors that took off, and there are others that many elements came together”, in reference to the exchange difference with Argentina that hits the tourism sector and the historic drought that devastated the national countryside in recent months.
Along these lines, he stressed that these current elements “generate a certain impotence because they do not depend on ourselves,” because “our largest tourism supplier, which is the Argentinahas an exchange rate situation with respect to us, which makes it very complex for us to have an influence.
“On the coast we have taken measures that are never enough,” said Lacalle Pou.
“The people of the country know it well. coast“We have taken measures that are never enough,” said the president. “We have taken measures that deal with material matters, but we also have to be present for emotional and emotional issues,” he stressed.
Lacalle Pou He emphasized that the government “is on the side of the tourism sector, for what it has fought for, for what it has faced with that characteristic humor of the tourism sector and its professionalism.”
For his part, the minister Mieres He highlighted the “enormous resilience” demonstrated by the Uruguayan tourism sector to face the current context.
“If there was a sector that was especially affected (by the pandemic) it was tourism, and now when we were already in a different stage, this new setback appears that means this situation of competitiveness with neighboring (countries), which directly affects the whole of tourist activity,” he pointed out Mieres.
Source: Ambito
