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Tourism - July 31 - Buenos Aires (Télam).
Tourism will produce this year incomes for approximately 3,700 millions dollars and will consolidate as the forth currency generator for Argentina, above cereals and meat, according to a private study.
The oscillation between the currency that is brought by the tourists and the ones that the Argentine tourists leave with will not continue to be negative this year for the first time in a decade, sustains the habitual weakly report of the Ecolatina consulting, spread the last weak of July.
The work indicates that in the first semester of this year 885,000 tourist came, which represented an increase of 10.8 % with regard to the 3.7 million tourists that came in 2005.
The report highlights that during 2005 the area generated 3,254 million dollars, witch turned this sector into the forth exporter, "above the cereal complex and the meat producer".
El informe subraya que durante 2005 el
sector generó 3.254 millones de dólares, con lo que se convirtió en
el cuarto sector exportador, "por encima de los complejos cerealero
y productor de carne".
"Se espera que para este año se
alcancen 3.700 millones" de dólares, añade, lo que representará
un aumento de 13,7 por ciento en el ingreso de divisas.
"It is expected for this year to reach 3,700 millions" dollars, continues, which will represent a rise of 13.7 % in the currency income.
According to Ecolatina," From the public area are projected inversions for 1,400 million dollars", number considered "a boom for the area, because it represents the triplex of what has been spent during 2005."
The consultancy firm points out that the variation of the gross domestic product (PBI) expected for this year, 7.3 % will be explained by the tourism, identical proportion to last year.
"For 2006 it makes out a growing in the area about 9.6 %, similar to last year (9.7 %)", says the report.
It highlights that "the important reduction of Argentine tourists outside, added to the recovery of the services exported in tourism (that is actually found in dollars with regard to the maximum of 1998), allowed that the balance of the old accounts, historically in deficit, be null, helping to improve in this way the balance of the current account."
"Without being associated to the international prices it generates an alternative source and, fundamentally, the stable currency", highlights the work.
Ecolatina states that "it is expected this performance to be maintained, because of the growth of the incomes and the presence of a kind of change relatively high".
The consultancy firm highlights that the tourisms "an important pole of development" because "it is a strong generator of currency", it has "a big incidence in the generation of jobs (including jobs of different characteristics and in very different activities)" and "because of the expansion that produces over other areas of the economy."
Source:
http://www.lineacapital.com.ar/?nota=141
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Argentina earn because of tourism in 2003 2 thousand 18 million dollars, which created the 7, 7 % of its Gross Domestic Products (PIB), and wishes to convert this area in the engine of its economy, following the Spanish model, says EFE
It was confirmed by the sub secretaries of Tourist Politics and Management, Daniel Pablo Aguilera, and Promotion and development, Carlos Aime, during an encounter with Spanish journalists in Buenos Aires.
The registered incomes in Argentina because of the tourism last year had already tripled the exportations of meat and equalize the exportation of petroleum, two of the traditional of the economy of this South American country.
The area enter a total of 18 million national and international visits, which supposed a growth of 18 % with regard to last year and, among the foreign tourists, the Spanish ones has increased (a 52 %).
What Aguilera and Aime, it is expected that tourism reaches, in the short term, 1 peso of the 12 % in the PIB of the country, a similar number to the one that maintains Spain.
"Our goal is to insert Argentina in the election of the international tourists and, to do that, it is necessary that the private activity release and respond to the demand that is being generated." Thanks to the attractions of the country and the devaluation of the peso, explained Aguilera.
The strategic tourist plan of the Argentine government acts over the basis of three types of markets in the international context, the priorities, strategies and potentials.
Among the firsts we can find five main countries issuing of foreign tourism: The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
The government of Buenos Aires considers as a strategic market the ones of Mexico and Canada and, over all, the north and east European countries where, according to Aime, "every day there is more interest for the different Argentine destinations."
Other potential markets are, for the authorities of the South American country, China, India, Russia and Japan "Because of their huge population and the rise of their acquisitive power", said the two responsible of the Tourism Area.
Aguilera pointed out that the tourist area became "a big helping hand" in many regions when the serious economical crisis that attacked the country two years ago. "It was then, - said- when we realized that it was necessary to back up its development."
But this area will only be transformed in the engine of the Argentine economy if it is implemented with the rest of the activities that has traditionally joined the production of the country, like the agriculture or livestock.
"It is about transforming a country of production of raw material in a nation of services", said Aguilera, who precise that "there is yet much work to do in this field, although we have already noticed the sensibility of many areas to be incorporated in tourism".
The major difficulty that Argentina faces up to is to get those objectives to raise their aerial connection with other countries and inside their own nation, according to both secretaries.
In this sense, Aime declare that "although it has been incorporated new ruts and frequencies, and there has been an important activity "aerocomercial", the situation is more dedicated and it needs more attention."
"We want the tourist to optimize his hours, and to spend his little time to visit and to enjoy things and not to spend the money in airports or in bad railways."
he said.
The responsible of the Argentine tourism assure that the country maintain acceptable levels of security, even beyond neighbor countries, for this factor dos not represent a problem for the development of the tourism.
They also rule out the production of political differences between Argentina and its neighbors, especially Chile, to undertake projects of tourist development together.
"When we talk about tourism, there are no political differences", said Aguilera, who asserted that "we have a great relation with Chile in the tourist area. We share a great frontier and the private activities of both countries are simonized and we work together." he said.
Source:
http://www2.noticiasdot.com/
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