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Economy & Business - October 2006
URUGUAY: The prospects for the tourist season
The peak months for the tourist season are January, February and March. In 2006 the season was badly affected by the roadblocks in Argentina, erected in protest against the papermills in Uruguay. In the high season (the first quarter of 2006), the number of tourists coming to Uruguay was 11% down (compared with 2005) at 694,000. The 2006 figures were also affected by the lateness of Easter, which moved Holy Week to April from March in 2005. The worry for the tourist industry is, however, that for the first half of 2006 the number of visitors was down by 5%, year-on-year.
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- Interest rates on the way down
- What Carstens might do
- ARGENTINA: Consumption kicks up a gear
- URUGUAY: The prospects for the tourist season
- CHILE: Government opts for spending
- PARAGUAY: The debate over the exchange rate
- BOLIVIA: Beating expectations
- COLOMBIA: Central bank increases rates
- ECUADOR: The electricity law
- VENEZUELA: Bit of a boom
- PERU: Pretty rosy
- COSTA RICA: Manufacturing does well
- CUBA: More trade with China
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Investigation into Baninter scandal takes new turn
- EL SALVADOR: Record fuel bill in 2006
- GUATEMALA: Worries about customs overhaul
- HONDURAS: Fuel licences to be announced on 1 November
- NICARAGUA: Ortega promises to cooperate with the IMF
- PANAMA: Growing fast
- MEXICO: Thirty-year bond launch
- REMITTANCE REPORT: Mexico tries to explain surge in remittances
- COMPANY FOCUS: CVRD joins the big boys
- DEBT: Argentina eyeing Asia
- COCA: US gives guarded welcome to new Bolivian coca policy
- BANANAS: Ecuador and Colombia to sue European Union
- MINING: Bolivian mines "nationalised"
- ENVIRONMENT: Colombia: Environmental damage costs more than war