NEW TOURIST CIRCUITS (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

Our country set a goal for this 2011: to reach new records in its sustained touristic growth. After receiving more than 5 million visitors last year, the new objective is to augment that number with its new tourist circuits. Hostel Colonial tells you about this new trendy destines in Argentina, so you can know them before you tourist agency or travelling friend finds out about them.

There are five different topics to be promoted, trying to leave behind the classic picture of “tango-football/soccer-meat” which has signed the Argentine promotion recently.

The first one is “Active Argentina”, focused on sport and adventure tourism. It includes the Dakar Rally, the famous Route 40 which connects the whole country south to north, the sky centers in The Andes, more than 300 golf fields and fishing options. Then you have “Authentic Argentina” and the gay-friendly tourism that grew –especially in Buenos Aires- after the promotion of the Egalitarian Marriage Law.

The third option is “Natural Argentina”, focused on ecotourism in National Reserves and virgin landscapes which our country is plentiful of. Along whit this is the circuit known as “Gourmet Argentina”. Here, you’ll find the local typical products (such as mate or dulce de leche), traditional gastronomy (once again, meat, but also creole food including potatoes and corn) and the wine routes (in Mendoza, the Patagonia and the south of Salta).

Finally, there’s a business option as “Argentina Meetings” which bets on the realization of congresses, events and conventions in the big cities as Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba or Mar del Plata.

Whether you decide to take advantage of these new circuits or you choose the classic and traditional ones, you should not miss the chance to visit in 2011 the fastest growing tourist destiny in South America.