While yer-on-year monetary comparisons of tourist spending can be complex with the three digit inflation, comparing the numbers of tourists is starightforward enough and this ponts to a bumper Easter week this year – some 265 million people travelling around the country or 1.5 percent more than the previous Easter. The outlay was nevertheless calculated by the CAME (Confederación Argentina de la Mediana Empresa )reatilers gouping, whose total of almost 96 billion pesos was estimated as an 18 percent increase in real terms, thus suggesting steep price increases. Acute traffic congestions was reported on both April 5th afternoon and April 6th morning, preceeding the long weekend.
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