Uruguay promoted their destinations at Festuris

From November 4 to 7, the 33rd Gramado Tourism Festival was held, an outstanding destination in Brazil in terms of tourism services. Uruguay intervened with a 90 m² stand, where the Ministry of Tourism, the municipalities of Colonia, Maldonado, Montevideo and Rivera and private operators participated and exhibited.

For 32 years, Uruguay has been an important figure in this fair and in this edition it presented the tourist attractions of Montevideo, Punta del Este, Colonia and Rivera, with spaces reserved for destination launches and meetings; the promotion of diversity in its tourist offer: sun and beach tourism, in rural and natural spaces, cultural tourism, gastronomy, shopping, mining tourism, wine tourism, among others.

The opening of borders and the omen of a good season make the Gramado Festival a great opportunity to show the country's offer, with health measures and guarantees that aim at safety in the tourist and operator experience; in a sector that is beginning to take its first steps after months on hiatus, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The event that took place in the Serra Park in Gramado, pointed towards a new design, in which the era of digital transformation was its great challenge, with a proposal to live and recreate tourist experiences in the main tourism business fair in the south of Brazil.

The National Director of Tourism, Roque Baudean, the person in charge of Dissemination, Mariella Volppe and the reference of the North Region, Paula Alves, participated for the Ministry of Tourism.

The national director of Tourism, made a summary of the participation of Uruguay in Festuris. Baudean stressed that they were two intense days of work, where Uruguay "did not go unnoticed."

The hierarch highlighted the presentation of Colonia on the one hand and Rivera with Livramento on the other as a binational destination, which was very well received by the Brazilian tourism trade and the tourist press.

In turn, Baudean reported that meetings were held to expand air connectivity, in addition to holding meetings at the highest level with the Brazilian authorities. In this sense, he highlighted the meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Tourism, Gilson Machado, and with the Secretariats of Tourism of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio Grande do Norte, where there are some connectivity projects that are being worked on "with an airline company." .

Baudean also mentioned the dinner provided by the Maldonado delegation, together with operators, travel agencies, the press and the Uruguayan Consulate, whose work "has been very intense and prepared a very important agenda, which we knew how to take advantage of", stressed.

Finally, the national director of Tourism mentioned that in the coming days, actions that were worked on at this fair, as well as in Porto Alegre, will be carried out, he concluded.