The Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera, assured that the number of visitors has been growing and is breaking records so far in 2023.
He Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Vierastated that the number of foreign visitors to the country continues to grow and break records during these last days of the year, so he expects that Uruguay It could close 2023 with a cumulative total of more than three million tourists.
See highlighted in an interview with Channel 4 that so far this year not only has the number of foreign tourists who visited the Uruguay, but so did spending on tourism, although to a lesser extent. The Colorado leader said that if this trend continues, the government’s projections are that there would be more than 3 million visitors.
“We have been breaking records in some origins, such as Brazil,” he noted. Seein reference to the fact that the third quarter of 2023 was the period with the highest number of visitors from Brazil, which totaled about 150,000.
The also presidential candidate for the Colorado Party (PC) He explained that “one thing is the visitors who are growing and we are recovering,” and another thing is spending, which “does not grow in the same proportion as the number of visitors.”
The head of the government portfolio also maintained that although the amount of money that Uruguayans spent outside the country is greater than what they entered, “no one says that those who go out a weekend later also take their vacation in Uruguay“.
“It is tourism, too, it is outbound tourism, travel agencies, transportation, a number of people work, historically there were,” said the Colorado, who added that “everyone is included in those outbound tourism figures.”
Tabaré Viera highlighted the increase in arrivals at the Punta del Este airport
In addition, See highlighted the increase in air connectivity: “We have at (the airport) Punta del Este some seasonal flights that are very important, there will be 21 flights to Punta del Este from Buenos Aires with Aerolíneas Argentinas, three daily flights”.
“We are going to have more daily flights with Paranair from Paraguay to Punta del Este, and we will have with Azul from Porto Alegre and Saint Paul seasonal flights that increase those available during the year,” the minister concluded.
Source: Ambito
