In the first seven months of the year, more than 4.3 million foreign tourists arrived in Argentina, according to the latest data from the Tourism Secretariat. The figure is a 9.4% increase on the same period last year, setting a new record for incoming tourism in Argentina.

Of the 4.3 million, 1.8 million tourists arrived by air, a further record for airport arrivals in Argentina, a 19.3% increase from 2018.

According to the International Tourism Survey, prepared by the national statistics agency INDEC, in July only, 607,800 tourists entered the country, a 9.8% increase from July last year. Of these, 261,700 tourists arrived by air, demonstrating considerable increases in arrivals from countries both in the region and further afield, for example, Brazil (24.2%), Uruguay (54.2%) and Paraguay (36.1%), the United States and Canada (12.4%) and Europe (14.1%).