Hotel occupancy in La Rioja exceeded 70%
During the four-day Flag Day weekend, 1.8 million tourists traveled through Argentina and spent $303,405 million on food, drinks, accommodation, transportation, recreation, and various purchases. Given this scenario, the number of people who traveled was 20% lower than the same weekend last year, which had the same number of days (4) and spent 24.3% less at real prices.
In this context, La Rioja received 5,111 tourists during the long weekend, with a hotel occupancy of 73%, according to data obtained by the province’s Tourism Economic Observatory.
In terms of spending, this year was also more austere: even adding the two dates, they spent a total of $384,869 million (US$418 million), 4% less in pesos, at real prices, than what was spent in just four days of the year. 2023. According to the report from the Ambient news portal, part of the difference was contributed by international tourists, who this year had very little presence, and reduced per capita spending.
Tourists this weekend in June had an average stay of 3 nights and spent $56,500 a day each, above the expenditure made last weekend, where due to low demand, there were many more promotions and fewer recreational options to spend .
However, the weather this year was less friendly, with snowfall in Patagonia, storms in some areas of Cuyo and NOA, storms in the NEA, and strong winds on the Coast. Anyway, there was also sunshine and also moments of mild temperatures.
It is worth remembering that so far this year, 4 long weekends have taken place, where 8.4 million tourists traveled and spent $1,369,395 million (US$1,488 million in the official BNA sales dollar).
In La Rioja
La Rioja received 5,111 tourists during the long weekend, with a hotel occupancy of 73%, according to data obtained by the province’s Tourism Economic Observatory based on a survey carried out in the Capital, Chilecito and Felipe Varela departments.
The economic impact of the holiday was $1,011,960,000.
Likewise, the number of overnight stays reached 16,866, and the average stay of tourists was 3.3 days.
