Uruguay received 1,219,198 foreign tourists in the first quarter of 2023, 11.6 percent more than in 2019, the Ministry of Tourism reported yesterday.
“This figure leaves us very happy. We see a recovery process, which is confirmed,” said Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera at the public presentation of the report with the data, held in Montevideo.
In the first quarter of 2019, the country attracted 1,092,016 visitors, while in the same period of 2020, when the pandemic of the new coronavirus broke out, there were 1,000,908 tourists.
There were no entries in 2021 and with the borders closed, and in 2022, even with sanitary limitations, 391,683 arrivals to the country were reported, according to the report.
At the level of foreign exchange generated by tourism, there was a 4.5 percent drop when comparing the 741 million dollars in the first quarter of 2023 with the 776 million in the same period of 2019, according to official data.
Argentina was the primary outbound market, with 716,548 Argentines entering Uruguay, an increase of 2.6 percent over the same period in 2019, followed by Brazil, with 145,459 arrivals (up 7.1 percent).
Before the pandemic, in 2019, Uruguay reached 3.2 million tourists from abroad, with a contribution of the sector of about eight percentage points to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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