The Central Bank’s measure to prohibit the sale of flights abroad in installments had a direct impact on the price of tickets by Argentina, since the value of internal flights skyrocketed.
Due to the increase in demand, airlines and other tourism companies took advantage of the opportunity to increase the prices of tickets. However, the Central Bank enabled new benefits for those who intend to buy tickets to travel in airplane around the country.
The monetary entity announced that tickets Inmates may be purchased through the Now 12 program, which is regulated by the national government. From the measure of the national government, tickets in the interior of the country they increased their value between 40% and 100%.
In an attempt to retain as much dollar as possible, the Central Bank prohibited not only the purchase of flights abroad in installments, but also the possibility of paying for accommodation or renting vehicles in another part of the world.
The measure was taken hours before Black Friday takes place, a sales day in which several travel pages and some banks offered special promotions in 12 interest installments for tickets To the exterior.
Domestic tourism, the great bet of the Government
To prevent citizens from traveling abroad and, on the contrary, investing in the country, the national government not only offered the Now 12 plan, but also revalued the PreTravel program.
As the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens, had already told Radio La Red, The Government expects the 2022 season to be a “record” season due to the sales levels achieved with the Pre-Trip.
In this way and to help the domestic tourism sector, the Executive made the decision to promote domestic tourism and accompany promotions in tickets and accommodation for March and April 2022.
