September 1, 2023

The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, his counterpart of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens and the Governor of Entre Ríos, Gustavo Bordet, launched this Thursday the fifth edition of PreViaje from the Provincial Convention Center of the city of Paraná, which will be extended from the September 29 to October 17. “We have what to promote this wonderful industry with”affirmed the Tigrense.

In this way, demand is boosted for the last extra-long weekend of the year from October 13 to 16 for the Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity.

As in previous editions, it will have a 50% refund but this time with a cap up $100.000 to use in travel agencies, accommodation, flights and long-distance buses. The other providers have a cap of $5.000 total.

In the case of PAMI affiliates, the refund will be 70%.

To access the Pre-Trip benefit, purchases of tourist services must be made between September 1 and 7. Meanwhile, there is time to load the receipts until September 8.

As for the Pre-Travel card, it can be used both in tourist services (travel and excursion agencies, accommodation, car and equipment rental, gastronomy, cabotage air transport, long-distance land and tourism) and in cultural consumption ( crafts, cinema, galleries, museums, regional products, recitals and theaters) until October 31.

Tourist providers who participated in PreViaje 4 should not register once more for this edition. Nor is it necessary for the premises of the sector to be registered to receive payments with the card.

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During the announcement, Massa stated: “I want to thank Matías (Lammens) and the entire tourism team, because if we look behind us we realize that we Argentines have something. We have rivers, we have mountains, we have beaches, we have valleys, we have snow, we have sea, we have something to promote this wonderful industry without chimneys that is tourism”.

“And if we look at the employment generation numbers and share them with our businessmen, with our cameras that are with us today, and we see the sector, we also realize that we have someone with whom to promote Argentina and promote tourism,” he said.

“Son 648.000 Argentine men and women working in a sector that has been growing systematically since the end of the pandemic and that not only generates employment and moves the domestic market, but is also a wonderful dollar factory, which has investment from our businessmen and skilled labor from our people and state investment,” he added.

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In addition, he highlighted the role of the company Aerolíneas Argentinas in the development of domestic tourism in all regions of the country, and announced that The company will add 12 new Embraer aircraft to its fleet.

In an electoral key, Massa assured: “For us the pre-trip 5 is one more step on a path. There will be preview 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 if we keep going and if in October and November the Argentines give us the opportunity to keep going.”

For his part, Lammens said: “It is a policy that is recognized by ministers, ministers of all provinces, of different political persuasions, governors, but above all it is recognized by the more than 7 million Argentines who have used it and those who have not.”

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And he highlighted: “Today tourism is one of the activities that generates the most registered employment. For 16 months in a row tourism has led the creation of registered employment. It is one of the sectors that contributes the most to the economy in terms of foreign currency, it is one one of the sectors that has also grown the most in the year-on-year variation in activity”.

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