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Viña del Mar, Chile – 30 January 2025
1. Wide of tourists at the beach
2. Tourists bathing as waves crash on the beach
3. Tourists playing with wooden rackets
4. Argentine tourist Cristian Vasquez with relatives
5. Cristian Vasquez drinking mate tea
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristian Vasquez, Argentine tourist:
“We rent an apartment for many people, which by splitting everything ends up costing us 95 dollars per day and on the Argentine coast it costs at least three times as much. To go to the beach and rent a sunshade on the beach is very expensive in Argentina.”
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Santiago, Chile – 3 February 2025
7. Various of Argentine tourists shopping in Santiago, Chile
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Veronica Pardo, Deputy Secretary of Tourism of Chile:
“And we reached 5,240,000 (tourists) which is undoubtedly a super good goal for us, but it is also peace of mind because it is not just a peak but we have been on a rising trend and that gives us the reassurance that as we said last year, the 2024 is the year that tourism returned to Chile.”
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 24 January 2025
9. Various of Arpoador beach during sunset
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27 January 2025
10. Various of people walking by Copacabana beach
11. Lentini Nicolas, wearing an Argentine national football jersey, and his family
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolás Lentini, 37, Argentine tourist:
“One week in Argentina, for four people, you pay a 700 USD rent and here, in Buzios, I rented for two weeks at the same price.”
13. Group of Argentine tourists at the beach
14. Various of people enjoying Copacabana beach
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Punta del Este, Uruguay – 28 January 2025
15. Tourists playing soccer at beach
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esperanza Fagalde, Argentine tourist:
"Now it has started to be advantageous thanks to (President of Argentina) Milei, so now we are back."
17. Tourists taking photos
18. Wide of beach
STORYLINE:
On a recent hot summer day in Chile, the beaches of Viña del Mar, Concón and Reñaca were packed with holidaymakers playing ball and sharing yerba mate tea.
They are part of a wave of Argentines who have found Chile to be a budget-friendly paradise this southern summer.
“On the Argentine coast it costs at least three times as much,” said Cristian Vázquez, who was enjoying the sea in Reñaca, on Chile’s central coast.
In December 2024, the start of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, more Argentines went on vacation abroad than in the previous year, with Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay as the top destinations.
Despite a year of economic crisis, Argentines are flocking to beaches, mountains and shopping centers abroad, encouraged by a favorable economic outlook — and a strong peso.
Between December 2023 and the same month in 2024 the Argentine peso appreciated by around 41% against the official U.S. dollar, thanks in part of a strong adjustment plan implemented by President Javier Milei, an ultra-liberal who came to power at the end of 2023 on vows to “blow up” the central bank, take an axe to the bloated government and kill sky-high inflation.
Argentine tourism abroad surged in December, with departures up 76.4% year-over-year to 1.3 million travelers compared to the same month the previous year, according to official figures.
Of those, 80.7% visited neighboring countries, primarily Chile (28%), Brazil (22.6%) and Uruguay (15.6%).
Chile has become a popular destination for Argentines, who made up 40% of the 5.2 million visitors to the country in 2024 and early 2025.
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