The Minister of Tourism and Sports of the Nation, Matías Lammens, affirmed this Thursday that tourism leads the creation of employment for the sixteenth consecutive month, and highlighted the air record reached in January in cabotage flights.
Lammens, in dialogue with Télam Radio, said that “the sixteenth consecutive month in which tourism leads job creation” was recorded, and he assured that an “aerial record” was produced in January, which “is news that we should spread more, not as an achievement but as good news of what is happening in Argentina”.
In this sense, he pointed out that “Argentina has an aerial record above the values of the pandemic, which speaks of a country that is growing, speaks of a country that is on the move, with good levels of employment and of course there are subjects pending as inflation”.
“But also, while this is happening, a country is happening that continues to grow, a country that continues to generate employment, a country and we know very well in the case of tourism that generates employment at the federal level, in each of the regions of Argentina” , he remarked.
He also mentioned that January totaled almost 700,000 foreign tourists, at “levels very close to pre-pandemic levels.”
In this regard, he stated that this “speaks of a country that is growing”, and commented that “what is happening with tourism makes us very happy and makes us very happy, above all for having had a plan to collaborate in what is the recovery. And speaking of growth, Argentina is going to grow for three consecutive years after many years, that is very important”, he highlighted.
This makes us “glimpse a different scenario for what is coming, which at the end of the day, is what one works for“, he pointed.
“January is the sixteenth consecutive month in which tourism leads job creation”Matthias Lammens
In this line, he expressed that the objective is “to have a country that ends the cyclical crises that Argentina has and that can have a sustained development over time that allows us to leave behind poverty, unemployment, inflation”, compared to what he maintained that in his opinion “we are beginning to walk on the right path and we also have to value all this good news”.
Besides, He pondered the “absolute recovery of spending” registered by the sector and specified that “one hundred percent of the cost is being recovered against January 2020.”
He also highlighted the role of the private sector and maintained that “it has behaved with great maturity, it has risen to the occasion because they understood that a massive Pre-Trip was for a time when the sector had to be supported and strengthened.”
“You have to keep working, you have to keep positioning Argentina, you have to keep doing works; We must continue training, we must continue showing that tourism, as we said on the first day, is one of the mainstays of development and growth in Argentina”, concluded Lammens.
