The number of pedestrians that cross the Paseo del Chocolate, the hundreds of vehicles that form long lines on each block, the crowded parking lots and the lines at restaurants and grills confirm the figures offered by tourism benchmarks, Bariloche is the most chosen destination in the country this Holy Week and occupancy amounts to 95%.
“We exceed expectations”, he stated to BLACK RIVER Gastón Burlón, municipal Secretary of Tourism when recalling that in the run-up to this long weekend a reserve level of 85 to 90% was estimated. A fundamental engine for tourism is the National Chocolate Festival that takes place this week.
martin lake, president of the Bariloche Hotel and Gastronomic Association, said that the survey between apartments, rental houses, inns and hotels of all categories that the entity brings together, before the weekend, showed a reserve level of 81% and they estimate As happened last year, the final figure will end up being much higher. “There are many people who arrive without reservation and if we take last year’s parameter for this date, the reservations were 82% and we ended up with 95% occupancy”.
He Argentine Tourism Observatory positioned Bariloche at the top of the chosen destinations with an official estimate of 93% occupancy hotel industry and leading the domestic flight occupancy ranking. This agency, which reports to the Ministry of Tourism of the Nation, indicated that San Martín de los Andes has 80% occupancy, Las Grutas 60% and El Bolsón 50%.
“Despite the country’s economic situation, there is a good level of influx and consumption in gastronomy and hotels, and that makes us think that, in addition to the fact that Bariloche is always an attractive destination for its landscapes, that we are doing things right, service providers have a good level of satisfaction and we are in good service standardsLake opined.
The profile of the tourist who visits Bariloche
Burlón said that the profile of the Easter public “It is fundamentally regional and one of the large tourism emitters with which we have direct air connectivity like Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Mendoza, Rosario; the flights arrive full”.
According to the Argentina 2000 Airports grid, this weekend the airport of Bariloche receives between yesterday and today 45 flights from different parts of the country.
Burlón also highlighted that there is a large influx of tourists from Chile. “We were surprised, in other Holy Weeks fewer came and today we have that there were people who stayed sleeping at the border because yesterday they did not crossBurlon said.
“In previous years we had a high demand for Chilean tourism on specific dates such as February or their September holidays, but now we see a more continuous flow, very marked on weekends”, analyzed Lago, who remarked that there is still a “operational limitation with the hours of the Samoré pass, which are limited and generate delays of 4 or 5 hours to cross from one side to the other”.
Regarding foreigners, there are also tourists from Brazil and Uruguay on the streets of Bariloche, but there is also a rise in foreigners beyond the regional ones, from Colombia, Mexico, the Northern Hemisphere such as the United States or Europe.
This phenomenon, for Lago generates “a window of growth and this means that Argentina recovered connectivitypeople are no longer afraid to make long trips as was the case in the pandemic for fear that the income policies of the countries will change ”.
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