The recent long weekend, which included a holiday commemorating the life of General Martín Miguel de Güemes, implied a drop in employment of 64.3%, compared to 2023, according to a report prepared by the Argentine Chamber of Medium Enterprises (CAME). From Mendoza, the president of Emetur, Gabriela Testacame out to object to these figures and pointed out “technical errors” in the businessmen’s report.
Through the official, Mendoza went to the national business chamber objecting that “it has an incorrect assessment in the analysis of the weekends in June.” According to CAME, the last holiday had a notable decrease in the number of travelers compared to the previous one. last year, since on this occasion 802,000 tourists traveled in the three days that the weekend lasted, while in 2023 2,247,966 did so.
The head of the Mendoza Tourism Entity, in dialogue with MDZ Radio 105.5 FMmaintained that “the previous weekend there was a lot tourism of closeness, a lot tourism internal. Mendoza has that advantage. Who can deny the crisis in which we Argentines are. Already in summer we assume a 10% reduction in tourism in Mendoza, while at the national level 16% less consumption was reported. The truth is that Mendoza is a tourist destination that mobilizes some segments that prioritize travel beyond economic circumstances, such as young people who travel in groups or couples, we do not have a tourism so familiar Afterwards, we have a tourism high-end that also allows us to sustain income.
“In the months of April, May and June we have had an agenda of conferences, exhibitions and tourism incentive that has sustained demand, of course with values that are lower than last year. Who could be so foolish as not to recognize that there is a decline. Last week I was at the Federal Tourism Council, all the provincial authorities agreed that there is a general decline, but the destinations that have tourism internationally, like the case of Mendoza, we are destinations that are sustained because they are compensated between the drop in tourism national and the support of foreign tourists, especially Brazilians,” he argued regarding the current tourism situation.
The tourism sector is going through an ambiguous period. The head of Emetur commented that “the economy is depressed and the tourism It is an economic activity, it is not altruism. I can say that Mendoza is doing better than the national average in general. Of course not all businessmen in the tourism “They are doing well, because not everyone understands how sales are handled today.”
Furthermore, he opined that “we have not abandoned the tourism. We are lucky to have a diversified demand. We have a large province that, for example, in the southern area, both San Rafael and Malargüe, have other segments that allow us to sustain demand in spring, which are trips by primary school graduates. And when you look at the metropolitan area, you have a tourism corporate and also has the arrival of many young people who come from Argentina.
Gabriela Testa He assured that “Mendoza is not expensive, Mendoza is competitive. Everyone chooses according to their capacity. The province has a good price-quality ratio according to the capacity you choose. If you can afford a hostel, you go there , and it gives you a five-star hotel, you go to that other one.
Along the same lines, he spoke about the star sector of the tourism Mendocino, the wineries: “Here there are 209 wineries open to tourists, we are part of the network of large wine capitals. We have other standards, we have more demand, it is supply and demand. There are wineries for all budgets as well. Before the wine boom tourist wineries, you took a guided tour to learn what the production process was like and then you went to eat somewhere else, that alternative still exists. It seems to me that no one is obliged to eat in a winery.
Finally, Testa released a forecast for the next long weekend: “The prospects are good. In fact, we are analyzing the entire period from last Friday to Sunday the 23rd because between the weekend that occurred due to the Güemes holiday and this one that begins tomorrow, because there is like a flow continuous. Last weekend was better than we expected, with 62%, and this weekend we will probably exceed 70% occupancy. It is a very good figure, it is a weekend that performs historically well because it coincides with. the opening of the winter seasons”.
