In the first nine months of this year, Uruguay welcomed a surge in tourism with 2,769,734 international visitors. This number outshines the total 2,466,929 tourists from all of 2022. The Ministry of Tourism revealed these figures in a fresh report. In the third quarter alone, 792,734 tourists arrived. That sets a new record for the […]
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