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With 66 votes, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly reformed the Budget Law 2022 and incorporated US$12 million to the Ministry of Public Works for the execution of the first stage of the Aeropuerto del Pacífico to be built in the department of La Unión.

The minister of Tourism, Morena Valdez, said in a morning interview that they expect US$161 million in foreign currency to enter the country during the Holy Week vacation period.

The minister of Tourism, Morena Valdez, explained that from january to december of last year, the country reached more than 1.4 million visitors and we expected 1.2 million. The projection in foreign exchange was US$800 million and it surpassed it with US$1,462 million.

The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) informs salvadorans that the tourism projection at the end of 2021 will be US$1,447 million in foreign exchange from tourism.

The minister of Tourism informed that, according to projected statistics, 1.3 million visitors will be received by the end of 2021, which exceeds the goal of 1.2 million estimated at the beginning of the year. "This is thanks to the good management of the pandemic and the country's positioning due to the international surfing tournaments we have had", the official said.

The general director of Immigration and Foreigners Affairs, Ricardo Cucalón, informed that for the period from december 15, 2021 to january 2, 2022, it is expected to register "more than 350 thousand people entering and leaving the national territory, a figure that represents an increase of 95% compared to the same period last year".

The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR), indicated that compared to 2019, this 2021 the percentage of tourists traveling to El Salvador from the U.S. for the Thanksgiving holiday, is 51% more, data that was provided by ForwardKeys, a company that provides information to tourism organizations interested in knowing who travels where, when and for how long.

The Ministers of Tourism, Morena Valdez, the Minister of Economy, María Luisa Hayem, and the General Manager of the Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo (CORSATUR), are conducting an inspection tour of projects carried out with non-refundable funds given to 32 companies by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).