Ngemuva kwenkinga yezikweletu e-Argentina, ukuhamba ngaphakathi kweNingizimu Melika kubukeka kumile, njengoba abantu base-Argentina bevuselela isifiso sabo sokuhamba.
Ezinyangeni eziyisishiyagalombili zokuqala zika-2018, abafikayo bezindiza bamazwe angaphandle eNingizimu Melika babephakama ngo-6% ezinyangeni eziyisishiyagalombili zokuqala zonyaka wezi-2017, njengoba kubikwe ngocwaningo olwenziwe yiForwardKeys, ehlaziya ukuthengiselana okungaphezulu kwezigidi eziyi-17 ngosuku. Kodwa-ke, ukubhuka kwendiza ezinyangeni ezine ezedlule zonyaka kumane nje kuyi-1% ngaphambi kwalapho bekukhona endaweni efanayo ngo-2017.
Ukubhuka kwamanje kwamazwe omhlaba okuya eBrazil, okuyindawo enkulu kunazo zonke eSouth America, ngesikhathi sikaSepthemba kuya kuDisemba, njengamanje kungu-8% ngaphambi kwalapho ababekulesi sikhathi ngo-2017, okuzwakala kukhuthaza, kepha lokho kuphambene nesikhathi sokukhula okungu-12% Ukufika kwezivakashi zomhlaba wonke kuze kube sekupheleni kuka-Agasti. Ngokuqhathanisa, iColombia, iPeru neChile bonke babonakala behlangabezana nezingqinamba, ngokubhukha izindiza okungenayo konke kushesha emuva lapho bebesendaweni efanayo ngonyaka odlule.
Isici esikhulu kube wukuhamba okuphuma e-Argentina, okwawa ngemuva kokudonswa kwepeso lase-Argentina. Ukuhambela eBrazil kwakukhuphuke ngo-31% kusuka ngoJanuwari kuya ku-Ephreli, kepha ipeso lashaya phansi ngomhlaka 3 Meyi laphazamisa imakethe ephumayo ezinyangeni ezintathu ezizayo. Kusukela ngomhla ka-31 Agasti, ukubhukha izindiza zase-Argentina eziya eBrazil ngoMeyi kuya kuDisemba kwehle ngo-1% uma kuqhathaniswa nesikhathi esifanayo ngonyaka odlule.
Ukuhamba usuka e-Argentina uye eChile nakho kuye kwaba nzima. Ekuqaleni konyaka, uJan-Apr, abafikayo babenyuke ngo-2% ngesikhathi esifanayo ngo-2017. Kodwa-ke, ukubhuka kwamanje ezinyangeni ezine zokugcina zonyaka kusilele ngama-52%. Lokhu kwehla kwesinye sezimakethe ezibaluleke kakhulu eChile kuguqule ukusebenza okuhle ngo-9% ezinyangeni ezine zokuqala zika-2018 kwaba nombono ongemuhle ka-9% ezinyangeni ezine zokugcina zika-2018.
Ngaphandle kwe-Argentina, umbono wemakethe enkulu kunazo zonke eNingizimu Melika, iBrazil, uyakhuthaza. Ukubhukha kwamanje ezinyangeni ezine zokugcina zonyaka kuzo zonke ezinye izimakethe ezinkulu zomthombo kusengaphambili, okunye okuthokozisayo, njengeChile (+ 28%), iFrance (+ 15%) neSpain (+ 15%). Ukukhushulwa kwamaphesenti okuhlaba umxhwele kakhulu kuvela ku: Bolivia (+ 41%) South Africa (+ 36%), Canada (+ 26%), Japan (+ 23%), Paraguay (+ 19%) kanye neColombia (+ 15%).
Ukubhuka kwamanje ngoSepthemba kuya kuDisemba, kusuka ezimakethe ezibaluleke kakhulu ezivela eMelika yaseNingizimu Melika kuvamise ukuba phambili kuka-2017. Labo abavela eCanada bangaphambi ko-12%, besuka eJalimane bangu-9% ngaphambili, bevela eFrance naseJapane abayi-8% ngaphambili futhi kusukela I-UK 7% phambili. Umbono ovela kulezi zimakethe eziyisihlanu uyakhuthaza kakhulu e-Argentina, eBrazil, eColombia nase-Ecuador.
U-Olivier Jager, oyi-CEO, ForwardKeys, uthe: “Inkinga yezikweletu zase-Argentina ibambe iqhaza elikhulu ezindleleni zokuhamba zaseNingizimu Melika. Ngokuwa kwenani lepeso, ngokushesha kwabiza kakhulu kubantu base-Argentina ukuya phesheya futhi izindawo zasendaweni ezinje ngeChile neBrazil zehla kakhulu kwizivakashi ezivela e-Argentina. Kodwa-ke, ngasikhathi sinye, i-Argentina, futhi ngokwengeza iNingizimu Melika, yaba nomtsalane ezimakethe ezisezingeni eliphansi kodwa ezinenani eliphakeme lokuhudula isikhathi eside. ”
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- Current international bookings for trips to Brazil, South America's largest destination, during the September – December period, are currently 8% ahead of where they were at this point in 2017, which sounds encouraging, but that is against a period of 12% growth in international visitor arrivals for the year to the end of August.
- This collapse in one of Chile's most important source markets has transformed a 9% positive overall performance in the first four months of 2018 to a 9% negative outlook for the last four months of 2018.
- In the first eight months of 2018, international flight arrivals in South America were 6% up on the first eight months of 2017, as reported by research undertaken by ForwardKeys, which analyzes over 17 million flight booking transactions a day.
