Buenos Aires (TAN): Argentina is welcoming LGBT tourists with open arms at a time anti-LGBT policies in Brazil are discouraging such visitors in neighbouring Brazil.
According to the news agency Merco Press, LGBT tourism packages in Argentina are becoming increasingly attractive for companies and businesses in the industry because customers in this sector tend to spend more and stay longer as compared to others.
In 2018, more than 490,000 LGBT tourists visited Argentina, said the report, adding that this was an 11 per cent growth over the previous year.
“In 2018, Argentina closed the year with over 7 million visitors. It included 490,000 LGBT tourists,” said Pablo De Luca, president of the Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and Tourism of Argentina.
The maximum number of LGBT tourists visited Buenos Aires, followed by Puerto Iguazú, Ushuaia, Mendoza, Córdoba, and Rosario.
