Monday, September 12, 2016 Uruguay expects record-breaking number of Argentine tourists this summerUruguay’s Minister of Tourism Liliam Kechichián said yesterday that the country is expecting “two million Argentines” to arrive at the end of the year, which would be a “record in the history Uruguayan tourism.”The minister, who met this afternoon with the governor of the province of Buenos Aires province Maria Eugenia Vidal, said that numbers of Argentine tourists increased 40 percent over the months of July and August, while the numbers of Brazilians, improved by 17 percent. Although she admitted that “making predictions in tourism, which is highly affected by things that may happen tomorrow, is a bit reckless,” she acknowledged that the figures show a “positive upward trend” that allows them to be “optimistic.” Additionally, Kechichián said that the first quarter of 2016 was “the best in the last five years,” bolstered by the news that the first half of the year saw the country’s best tourism figures in the last 15 years, according to a report by the Centre for Economic Research (Cinve), which was published in August.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 12, 2016 00:56 UTC