The holiday of Carnival has been a success, with very good occupancy rates in the coastal area, to the point that destinations such as Maldonado, Rocha and Canelones In these few days they reached the numbers from the beginning of the year, considered the best of the season.
“There was a very good start to the carnival week, the weekend with a lot of people. We’ll see what happens from Wednesday, but we think it will continue at a good level. “A lot of Brazilian public, a lot of domestic tourism, characteristics similar to the beginning of January,” he informed Ambit the tourism director of the Mayor of Maldonado, Martín Laventure.
The leader also pointed out that the number of tourists arriving from the provinces of the Argentine interior, This is based on an improvement in connectivity not only by air, but also by land. In Enjoy Punta del Este Occupancy reached 94% during this weekend.
The Enjoy Punta del Este, with a good average audience
“Carnival confirmed a little was the line of what the first days of January were, the hotel, as well as the shows and the different activities, maintained a very good average audience,” he told Ambit Enjoy’s institutional relations and sales manager, Javier Azcurra.
And he specified: “In our case, although now the occupancy drops a little on Wednesday, it goes up again and remains at 100% starting on Friday, since what we did was put the tournament Enjoy Poker Tour, “which is one of the most important poker tournaments in the world, which begins next Saturday.”
“So next Saturday and for the next 10 days until February 25, we will be with the hotel 100% also due to this coming of poker players from all over the region and the world,” he noted. Azcurra.
Compared to previous years, occupancy was higher, the manager noted, being 91% the previous year. Regarding nationalities, 44% of tourists arrived from Brazil, 36% from Argentina, 13% from Uruguay and 7% extra region.
The Canelones Gold Coast “exploded”
This season is being good for him tourism on the coasts of Cannelloni, but this holiday Carnival. “It exploded Gold Coast”, stated the director of Canarian Tourism, Horacio Yanes. Although the department does not have a high number of hotel beds, as there are in other destinations in the country, the hotels on the Canary coast are working with 100% occupancy.
“In cannelloni Occupancy levels are measured more by people staying in houses and family residences with rentals through applications directly with the owners and we cannot measure that for now,” explained the Director of Tourism.
During the week there are various activities Carnival planned, the call contest in Coast Citythe carnival parade in Santa Lucía, the Samba Schools competition in Paso Carrasco with visitors from Brazil. Also this week there will be murgas contests in Atlántida and neighborhood parades.
In the previous stage, the shows were held within the framework of “Cannelloni sounds good,” with massive shows that “left a very positive balance, with an important economic effort by the Municipality and also the economic impact that it meant for the trade of Atlantis and nearby areas,” said the leader.
Rocha also achieved 100% occupancy
Further to the east, occupancy even reached 100% in formal tourism, which includes hotels and hostels, according to the report. Rocha tourism director, Federico Zerbino. “At carnival people come to carnival to enjoy what Uruguayan, It is a different enjoyment than January,” he highlighted.
The chosen places on the ocean coast at this time of year are still La Pedrera and La Paloma. “It is a natural enjoyment of the carnival in format microvacation. The cultural agenda predominates, without so much noise,” Zerbino concluded.
Source: Ambito
