The number far exceeded expectations based on accommodation bookings until Thursday were 85%. Tourists left 30 million of direct spending. Gran Mendoza, the East and the mountain area with full occupancy.
Mendoza was during this week, including the two long weekends, for the Veterans Day and Memorial in the Falklands War and Easter an option for a mini-vacation. In addition, the match for the Copa Libertadores between Godoy Cruz and the University of Chile, on Wednesday, performing the Turismo Carretera competition in San Martin and the International Festival of Classical Music by the Wine Roads were reason to Argentines and Chileans who chose to visit our province.
Classical Music at Winery Atamisque
The figure is encouraging when compared with the same period in 2011, which was very good as well as 60,000 tourists were reported.
While 75% of the visitors are from Argentina, from Buenos Aires, CABA, Córdoba and Santa Fe. A significant event was the great movement of tourists from Chile who crossed the border, mostly, the night before the party at the University of Chile with Godoy Cruz, a high percentage staying during the weekend. The net figure is that 10,000 Chileans were in the province.
The average stay is 4-5 days with a daily expenditure of 350 pesos in the national economy and $ 110 internationally. Considering these numbers projected total spending by tourists was 30 million pesos.
Note that under the sporting events and the International Music Festival was also a large internal movement of local residents.
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Since Friday morning, the movement was intense, especially in the Ministry of Tourism informant who worked in coordination with municipalities to distribute to visitors at tourist accommodation or being formally registered record.
Areas that had a full employment was the Gran Mendoza, mountain region (Potrerillos, Cacheuta, Uspallata), San Rafael reported 96%, the Uco Valley 90%, 65% Malargüe.
A particular case was the East which recorded an occupancy rate of 100% due to the completion of the Turismo Carretera competition that drew a crowd of motorsports enthusiasts. During the week the region full occupancy so the municipality decided to enable logging of private houses was recorded.
