In line with Chilean tourism government, greater than 5 million overseas vacationers visited Chile in 2024. This determine represents a 40.4% building up in comparison to 2023 and marks the perfect selection of guests because the pandemic, confirming 2024 because the yr of tourism restoration in Chile.
Verónica Pardo, the Undersecretary of Tourism, said, “We’re very happy to announce that 2024 marked the definitive restoration of tourism in Chile, with 5,239,233 overseas vacationers—a 40.4% building up from 2023 and a 16.0% building up from 2019. December used to be the most productive month of the yr, with over 647,000 arrivals, reflecting a 47.3% building up. This has ended in an upward adjustment in our projections for the summer time. Those figures show off the collaborative efforts of each the private and non-private sectors to put Chile as a gorgeous, sustainable, and secure vacation spot international.”
In December, 647,743 world arrivals exceeded the field’s expectancies. Consequently, the projections for overseas vacationer arrivals for the 2025 top season have additionally been revised upwards—from an preliminary estimate of two,100,292 to two,225,773 arrivals, representing a 22.5% building up in comparison to the 2024 summer time.
In 2024, Argentina crowned the checklist for world arrivals, sending 2,088,389 vacationers to Chile. This represents an building up of 73.2% in comparison to 2023 (1,205,662 arrivals) and a forty five.5% building up in comparison to 2019. Particularly, Brazil additionally made vital strides, recording 787,036 vacationers, which marks a enlargement fee of 62.0% in comparison to the former yr—its perfect efficiency traditionally between 2013 and 2024. Referring to marketplace percentage, Argentina accounted for 39.9% of arrivals in Chile, adopted by means of Brazil at 15.0% and america at 4.8%.
Along with celebrating those certain figures for overseas vacationer arrivals in 2024, projections for home tourism in Chile all over the top season of 2025 point out that Chileans are anticipated to make between 25 and 30 million journeys with in a single day remains inside the nation.