Tourism in Chile today is considered to be an emerging activity, having little structure and being barely sustained by the public sector. Some activities have managed to develop and be quite competitive and well-known around the world.
The following presents a list of some of these activities that you can do in Chile. Next, a general and comparative picture by regions appears where it defines the types of tourism that are characteristic to each one, its main location, period of accomplishment.
Previously revealed as interesting positions in some parts of the country, offer very specific products where foreign visitors have a significant presence. These types of tourism don't seem to have conditions with factors that make it possible such as snow, rapids, ocean fauna and rivers ejm., archaeological sites, etc, and existence of infrastructure and equipment.
National tourism however, seems to favour variable climatic conditions, which determines great territorial and summer seasons, for tourist activities ejm. In the coastal center - north between Serena, Santo Domingo, and Region of the Lakes, which does not allow the development and sustentation of certain types tourism such as the Sun, Beach, and Baths.
Natural resources: copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, handropower
Ports and Harbours:
- Antofagasta
- Arica
- Chanaral
- Coquimbo
- Iquique
- Puerto Montt
- Punta Arenas
- San Antonio
- San Vicente
- Talcahuano
- Valparaiso
