News of tourism

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC data indicates tourism grew in June

Today 07:00 Overnight stays in hotels up 13.1% year-on-year, with most visiting Buenos Aires City, the Litoral and Patagonia.

MAMET INTERVIEW

Opportunity awaits in Argentina, ex-US ambassador tells investors, big brands

02-08-2019 15:00 Former US ambassador Noah Mamet sits down with the Times to discuss his hopes for Argentina's tech, beef, tourism, wine and renewable energy industries.

by Lucas Robinson

Driver charged with manslaughter

Tucumán bus crash leaves 15 pensioners dead

02-07-2019 15:38 Gruesome accident leaves 15 dead on fog-laden highway in Tucumán province.

DEVALUATION CRISIS

Numbers of Argentines travelling abroad declines after devaluation

11-08-2018 12:57 A 2.6% decline was registered in June compared to the same month last year.

TRAVEL SPECIAL

Not so idle days in Patagonia

09-06-2018 12:04 Wayne Bernhardson has spent four decades exploring the Southern Cone for work reasons – but he has rarely visited the same places with his wife. In December, he swapped the professional for the personal on a trip to Ushuaia and the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares.

by Wayne Bernhardson

GUEST VOICE

New Zealand: Aotearoa – the Land of the Long White Cloud

26-05-2018 11:17 New Zealand's Ambassador to Argentina Raylene Liufalani writes for the Times about a bright future for New Zealand-Argentine relations.

NEW NATURAL WONDER

Tourists flocking to Peru's newfound 'Rainbow Mountain'

02-05-2018 12:32 It's only within the last five years that the natural wonder has been discovered by the outside world, but environmentalists are already concerned about the stunning landscape.

GROWING SECTOR

Government wins US$2-billion tourism boost, Macri receives award

21-04-2018 19:37 Argentina saw one million new air passengers in 2017 compared to a year previous and its highest ever level of hotel bookings.

GROWING TOURISM

AirBnB policy chief: ‘Tourism must work for communities’

21-04-2018 19:06 Chris Lehane, global head of policy and communications, of the successful Company visited Argentina last week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Jujuy, which will encourage shared tourism endeavours in that province.

by Jayson McNamara

FOLLOWING WTTC CONFERENCE

Argentina looks to China, the tourist industry’s most coveted market

20-04-2018 12:34 Argentina received 30,000 Chinese tourists in 2015, a figure that doubled to 62,000 by 2017.

AMID TENSION

Low-cost FlyBondi granted unlimited flights from disputed El Palomar airport

12-04-2018 10:50 The court's decision is a blow to El Palomar residents, who claim the airport is not fit for high-volume commercial air travel.

ARGENTINA POLO DAY

Tourists in Argentina turn polo players for a day

17-03-2018 12:01 Traditionally an exclusive, glamorous sport reserved for the rich elite, in Argentina tourists can now ride horses, learn from the pros how to hit the high-impact plastic ball and even play a match on a real field.

MOTORS OF ‘INVISIBLE GROWTH’

The sectors behind Macri’s economic hopes

10-03-2018 08:34 Lithium, renewable energy, low-cost tourism and the Vaca Muerta shale gas deposit could eventually account for nine percent of GDP, but with an uneven effect on employment.

by Juan Pablo Álvarez

4-day weekend

Peña: ‘This is one of the best Carnaval weekends in history’

12-02-2018 10:47 More than two million people left their homes for tourism-related travel this weekend.

ECONOMIC QUESTIONS

Baby steps for state reform

03-02-2018 12:36 The tourism deficit is almost entirely the result of local prices, which have induced some four million Argentines to spend minor fortunes in Chile and elsewhere on bargain shopping sprees.

by Michael Soltys