News of arrivals

First Ukrainian family fleeing war arrives in Argentina

11-03-2022 11:05 Sources confirm arrival of first family since outbreak of war: a woman with nine-year-old son and his grandmother.

TRAVEL & TOURISM

Argentina finally scraps entry quotas for travellers arriving by air

20-10-2021 13:01 Entry caps for air passengers to Argentina were finally eliminated by the authorities on Tuesday as promised – 14 days after the country reached the landmark of half the population fully vaccinated.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina to scrap Covid entry quotas for foreign arrivals on October 19

06-10-2021 14:12 Argentina’s civil aviation agency announces that from October 19, Covid-19 limits on incoming passengers arriving from abroad by air will be scrapped.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina raises limit on returning residents to 1,700 places a day

07-08-2021 08:31 Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero confirms government will raise cap on arriving travellers from 1,000 to 1,700 a day. Tourists still banned from entering country.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Foreign tourist numbers down 90% in first five months of year

16-07-2021 00:42 Barely 6,800 tourists entered the country in May, while there were 30,000 residents travelling in the opposite direction.

Coronavirus pandemic

Opposition demands roll-back of daily cap on arriving travellers

02-07-2021 23:57 As many as 40,000 citizens and residents are overseas, according to migration officials, who say 60% of those who travelled last month did so for tourism.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina risks stranding its own citizens abroad, airlines warn

28-06-2021 15:13 Argentina's decision to limit the number of daily international arrivals, in an attempt to curb the spread of Covid-19, runs the risk of stranding thousands of its citizens abroad.

Covid-19 pandemic

Spot-checks show 38% of arrivals not complying with Covid-19 quarantine

21-06-2021 16:44 Thirty-eight percent of individuals who have recently entered Argentina are failing to comply with mandatory Covid-19 quarantine restrictions, says National Directorate of Migration.