Saturday December 24, 2022 | 6:30 p.m.
Bariloche has already exceeded its historical mark of 700,000 tourists per year, reaching one million. This is also a product of being the town with the largest number of parking spaces and services in Patagonia and the city in the interior of the country with the greatest air connectivity. Currently, it is possible to travel from Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza, El Calafate, Viedma, Salta and Tucumán with direct flights. Likewise, from abroad it has flights from San Pablo (Brazil) and Santiago de Chile also added non-stop frequencies.
According to official data and statistics released by the Ministry of Tourism, the origin of tourists has been 90% national and 10% foreign markets. Visitors stayed there an average of 5 nights and the 2022 winter season reached 95% occupancy. With these numbers, the desire to increase this percentage of foreign visitors is very broad since the city and the conditions of connections and flights lend themselves to it.
In this regard, the Secretary of Municipal Tourism and President of EMPROTUR, Gastón Burlón, expressed: “We have a large flow of national visitors that exceeds 90% in official figures. We are very proud to be the leading tourist destination that has favorable and attractive conditions to offer a wide variety of options at any time of the year. For all that Bariloche offers, we consider it a great challenge to be able to position the city as a unique attraction abroad, taking San Carlos de Bariloche abroad and generating the desire and desire to come and see it”.
Summer in Bariloche
Bariloche currently has more than 150 weekly flights in low season and 260 in high season, it is one of the destinations in the country with the highest frequency and number of flights. Gastón Burlón adds: “We are committed to working together with the airlines since there would be no flights if there is no demand and this is generated with a strong investment in promoting the destination. We carry out endless cooperative tasks with each tourism sector to make the city an incomparable and exceptional destination”
The objective, as explained by the newspaper Ámbito, is to be able to reach the European public in countries mainly coming from Spain, France, England and Germany; of North America seeks to attract visitors from Mexico and the United States.
