The Ministry of Tourism highlighted the expectations generated by the brand new destination for the coming months.
The binational airport of Rivera, inaugurated 20 days ago in an event led by the president Luis Lacalle Pou, It is one of the government’s main strategies to attract tourists from Brazil in 2024 and from Ministry of Tourism They anticipated that expectations are very good and they are betting on “a market of permanent growth.”
In this way, the Executive seeks to continue attracting visitors from a destination that has been growing like the Brazilian one. In dialogue with Ambit, the Undersecretary of Tourism, Remo Monzeglio, He confided that “we will have to wait a little” in terms of airline planning, but stressed that “it is going to be a market of permanent growth.”
“Not for this summer, but we have very good expectations. There are going to be flights Porto Alegre-Rivera with the airline Blue and that makes it cheaper to get to Uruguay, which is the true meaning of binationality,” he said. Monzeglio.
The manager of Operations and Passenger Experience of Uruguay Airports, Federico Cabrera, who shared with this medium his “good expectations,” pointing out that the airport of Rivera “It will boost tourism.”
By giving an example, Cabrera He spoke of “the arrival of the public to attend sporting events, whether motorcycling or motor racing, which are activities that are organized in the department,” but highlighted that, in addition, “it will allow the region and its surroundings to be mobilized.” Another possible effect that the leader proposed was to “enhance the arrival of tourists who make connections and arrive at Montevideo and Canelones”.
The Rivera airport involved an investment of 13 million dollars
The airport of Rivera It is part of the series of improvements in the air connectivity made by the government and represented an investment of 13 million dollars, used for the modernization and expansion of the passenger terminal, which has 820 square meters. Additionally, it improved the control tower and the renewal of the system of communications, which includes an internal fiber optic network.
The tasks included the conditioning of the facilities for the National Air Police, a new detachment of Firefighters and the improvement of aeronautical infrastructure, with the resurfacing of the main runway of 1,830 x 45 meters, the installation of LED beacons on the runway and taxiways and LED lighting on the apron.
Source: Ambito
