Nearly three million tourists they traveled the country during the four days of the long weekend of Carnival. The figure is given in a season in which there is talk of the “return of international tourism”according to today’s Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens.
«This record-breaking Carnival weekend rounds off a wonderful season with excellent numbers in all destinations in the country and full occupancy in many of them“, specified Matías Lammens, holder of the portfolio, through a statement.
It was the Carnival weekend “with more people mobilized since the holiday was established in 2011″, stood out from the national portfolio.
In addition, the season “marked the strong return of international tourism and the consolidation of the sector as one of the engines of the economy and job creation,” added the official.
Lammens advanced, in addition, that with PreTravel 4 -which they will launch for the offseason- they will ensure “an even movement during the twelve months for all providers and the transformation of what was previously temporary employment into “employment for the whole year”.
For his part, the president of the Argentine Chamber of Tourism, Gustavo Hani, remarked that “a weekend of Carnival is ending with high levels of occupation throughout the country. The sustained growth of tourism is consolidated, which once again confirms its key role as an industry that generates business, work and development throughout the country.
According to data from the Argentine Tourism Observatory (OAT), in the provinces of Patagonia, the provincial occupancy average was 90% in Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands; and 85% in Chubut.
The figures are comparable with other regions of the country. For example, in the north of the country: 95% in Jujuy; 90% in Salta and La Rioja; 89% in Tucuman; 91% in Catamarca; 70% in Santiago del Estero; 65% in Chaco; 92% in Misiones and 95% in Corrientes.
In the central zone of the country, the provincial occupancy average was 95% in Entre Ríos; 94% in Santa Fe; 70% in the City of Buenos Aires (with 94 thousand tourists); 90% in the Province of Buenos Aires, in Córdoba and in San Juan; 95% in St. Louis; 87% Mendoza.
Telam Source
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