The Minister of Tourism and Sports of Argentina, Matías Lammens confirmed the launch, in March, of a new edition of the Previaje Programthe fourth, for purchases in sightseeing that are carried out between May and June and announced that it could include a price agreement with the sector.
Lammens stressed that It is important to readjust “a tool that was successful”, which achieved political consensus and “among the people” and which was used by more than 6 million people. He also assured that “it made sense” to launch it for the offseason, as a way to “stimulate the sightseeing internal,” he said.
The official said that the new edition of the program, which grants credits for 50% of the purchases made to spend on sightseeinggives you a “predictability framework for entrepreneurs” and achieves that the demand for employment in the field, “is stable throughout the year.”
The head of the Tourism portfolio clarified that the objective of the Program is that “there is a lot of internal movement” and the person who thinks of traveling to “a neighboring country or abroad” choose to stay and travel inland, because “it has some kind of benefit”he explained.
The official also stressed that the previous trip 3 “functioned as a price control” and that last October and November, the gastronomy and hotel sector “was below the general inflation index”. Lammens considered that the numbers for the second half of January indicate that we are “in a very good season” with levels close to last year’s record, he assured.
