My boyfriend is planning a trip to South America and wants to fly to Ecuador and travel down to Argentina. He has just been advised that he needs a return ticket in order to get into the country without a visa. The same goes for Peru I believe, which is another of the countries he wishes to visit.

As he is flying into one country and flying out of another, how is it possible to get round this?

It just means he has to have a ticket to prove his intention to return to the UK. He can get a ticket out to Ecuador and back from Argentina but this would be easier sourced using a travel agent. A small, independent travel agent would probably be more helpful with things that are flight only.

Thanks queenstomper, it was actually the travel agent who told him he needed a return ticket from ecuador! We called the embassy and they said what you said and told him he should also carry around an itinerary so I guess it will be OK.

Yes it should be. The main concern of any country which isn't EU is that if you're travelling on a holiday that you have proof that you're intending on going back - and that proof would be a plane ticket.