Tourist arrivals in Chile up 15% in first half of 2012: Argentina, Brazil lead
Chilean Tourism Under Secretariat head Jacqueline Plass made a positive balance of tourism activity during the first half of the year with over 1.85 million foreign arrivals, a 15% increase over the same period a year ago.
Plass said that Argentina continues as the main source of arrivals and in the first six months of the year reported a 26% increase over last year, totalling 779.963 arrivals. Brazilian tourist arrivals on the other hand jumped 27%, and “Colombia is another outstanding source of arrivals having increased 30% over 2011”
“More specifically during June the number of tourists from Brazil soared 35% compared to the same month a year ago”, added the Chilean official.
In the six months tourists arrivals’ country of origin were as followed: Argentina 42%; Brazil and Peru, 9.6% and Bolivia, 9.2%.
Regarding the European market, arrivals only increased 5.1% over the same period a year ago totalling 214.176, while North America was even more modest with arrivals up 3.1% reaching 148.097 tourist arrivals.
Ms Plass said on releasing the numbers that “we are seeing the results of promotion work jointly displayed by the government and the private sector in those markets which we have defined as priorities: Argentina, Brazil, US, Spain, UK; France, Germany, Peru, Colombia and Australia, appealing to tactic actions very much focused on commercial television, end consumers, fairs, events, invitations to specialized media and travel agents”.
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and, #1, I can strongly recommend Brasil's coast for some great holidays ... sufficiently different from 'western' beach-recliner resorts to make a holiday interesting. And Iguacu Falls, the Chapada Diamantina, Amazonia, etc offer tourism that the cogniscenti travel the world to experience.
What is “your” city?
Shouldn't be too much of a fight really.
If you really don't want to give too much money to Argentina it is easily avoided as many hotels will ask you to pay into foreign bank accounts if you don't have dollars cash.
Argentina has many lovely places to visit, especially away from BsAs but no great beaches. If you want that then I would recommend Chile. In fact, I would recommend Chile over Argentina for any holiday. JMO
if you ever met a bloody real man,
all you would do, is make a puddle on the pavement, alone side
the rest of your fellow anti british wierdos.
The real Forgetit is educated and erudite, particularly over matters financial. He would never make the sort of comments we have been seeing over the last few weeks.
As Geoff says Forgetit was an extremely well educated poster who, for all his/her mistaken theories never lowered him/herself to the sort of claptrap posted in #5.
we see no sign of this,
if indeed his son is using his name, then his son, should say sorry, for abusing his fathers good name,
[ should he not ]
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