Alejo Umpiérrez maintained that the “sincerity” of the exchange rate in Argentina has a full impact on its middle class, the department’s target audience.
He mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrez assured that Uruguay already feels the devaluation of the Argentine peso that the government of Argentina carried out in its first days in office. Javier Mileiand that this “sincerity” of the exchange rate has a full impact on the Argentine middle class, the target audience for tourism in their department.
The departmental leader maintained that, although it is still premature to say, “Argentina “You are going to begin to feel the impact of your economic situation even more strongly than you were already experiencing” during the previous administration.
“The shortage, in the first instance, with the sincerity of the dollar currency and the exchange rate in Argentina generates an impact on the middle class,” he said Umpiérrez in reference to the battery of measures carried out by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputowho devalued the Argentine peso by 50%, based on a rise in the official dollar of almost 118%, until it stood at 800 Argentine pesos.
“Uruguay has already felt that impact, Rocha especially,” the mayor of Esteño pointed out to Channel 4. However, he stated that in the first days of January there are a good number of reservations, and that, as a counterpart to the decrease in Argentine visitors, he expects a large number of local tourists.
“There is an important movement that is noticeable”
“There is already an important movement that is noticeable,” he explained. Umpiérrezwho said that the departmental administration carried out a set-up for “the preparation of everything that is seasonal work along the 180 kilometers of the Rocha coast.”
Likewise, this same Monday, the mayor told Montevideo Portal that, based on the Argentine situation, the national government established measures to support the tourism sector, such as the exemption of the real estate tax (by 50%), the elimination of the Environmental Hygiene tax and stopping charging commercial authorization for the opening of new premises.
Source: Ambito
