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Favorable Environment for Tourism in Uruguay |
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Montevideo.- Tourism in Uruguay shows a growing trend in terms of tourist arrivals, with an increase of 24.8 percent in the first semester of 2017.
According to experts, from January to June, Uruguay was visited by 2.1 million vacationers, and revenues totaled 1.44 billion dollars during the said period.
Most tourists came from Argentina, with nearly 1.5 million vacationers, followed by Brazil with 241,000 and Uruguayans who reside abroad (147,000).
In addition, Europe contributed 73,000 tourists, the rest of the Americas (excluding Argentina and Paraguay) 43,000, while Chile and North America reported 39,000 tourists each.
It should be said that Uruguay's main tourist destinations were Montevideo (482,000 vacationers), Punta del Este (479,000) and the west thermal coast (302,000), in addition to Colonia, the shores of Canelones and Rocha, and Piriápolis.
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