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Central Bank Reclassifies Card Spending, Shrinking Reported 2025 Tourism Dollar Outflows by 23%

The reclassification excludes streaming plus cross‑border e‑commerce from travel tallies to cut the estimated 2025 outflow.

Entre enero y noviembre salieron del país 11,19 millones de residentes, mientras que ingresaron 4,78 millones de turistas extranjeros
El ministro Federico Sturzenegger celebró que muchos argentinos elijan pasar sus vacaciones fuera del país. Foto: Juano Tesone
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El Banco Central medirá en forma distinta la salida de divisas por turismo

Overview

  • The BCRA’s November foreign‑exchange report disaggregates card payments for travel, tickets and lodging from digital services and cross‑border e‑commerce for July–November.
  • Applying the new series, estimated 2025 outbound travel outflows fall to US$10.241 billion from US$13.350 billion, and the tourism balance narrows to US$‑6.935 billion from US$‑9.983 billion.
  • Tourism Secretary Daniel Scioli requested the change via Economy Minister Luis Caputo and described it as the first methodological update in roughly 15 years.
  • Scioli’s ministry will stop financing INDEC’s ETI and EOH from January 1, 2026, while the latest ETI shows 11.19 million resident departures versus 4.78 million foreign arrivals through November.
  • The revision has triggered a public policy dispute, with Minister Federico Sturzenegger calling Argentines vacationing abroad “heroes of production” and analysts citing exchange‑rate and price gaps that favor foreign trips.