Argentina expects more than five million foreign tourists in 2010
Argentina is expecting over five million tourists this year, a historic record which represents a 15.5% increase over 2009, said Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer.
“Foreign tourist arrivals in 2010 will be over five million, which is a new record”, said Meyer based on the numbers from the first quarter, up 14.5%, May, plus 21.9% and April, 9.7% compared to a year ago.
The Minister also revealed that air bookings are at a record level for the rest of the year and said that one of the positive factors this year has been the significant retraction of the A H1N1 flu scare following the 2009 pandemic.
Last year the number of foreign passengers visiting Argentina dropped 14.1% to 1.999.535 and spent the equivalent of 2.6 billion US dollars, according to official statistics.
The International Tourist poll from the Ministry of Tourism showed that during May, 191.665 foreign tourists arrived in Argentina which represents an increase of 21.9% over May 2009.
Of that total, 30.3% were from Brazil; 11.4% from Chile; rest of Latinamerica, 21.7%; Europe, 19.3%; United States and Canada, 11.8% and the rest of the world, 5.5%.
Last June the Argentine government upgraded the Tourism Office to Ministry taking into account that the tourism sector represents 6% of GDP and an even greater percentage in creation of jobs.
Tourism in Argentina has increased steadily since 2003, mostly because of a favourable exchange rate following the collapse of the fixed parity of 1 US dollar equivalent to 1 Argentine peso. The exchange rate now stands at 3.90 Argentine pesos to the US dollar.
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dispute is at kelper´s cost; big money; don´t fortget shareholders cost.
Now I can understand why FKL invest her money in UK instead kelperland.
dispute means money; when it will be end? I vote for negotiations. If I were a kelpers I will try independence when I talk about selfdetermination. Uk is a strange body in south america and is the main cause of kelper´s economic loss.
1) Argentina is not “blocading” Malvinas.
We just don’t want anyone using OUR infrastructure to conduct any form of business with the Islands.
We are working hard to convince our neighbours Chile Uruguay and Brazil to do the exactly the same.
Right of admission reserved..... You know?...
We don’t need your business.
We don’t want your business.
We don’t want you.
2) Nobody in Argentina is dreaming about the Islanders becoming
Argentinean. We would very much wish you to leave today sooner than tomorrow.
But we are ready to respect your interests...........not your wishes.
Everybody down here knows what those “wishes “are.
And they are not “to live in some degree of harmony” as you so nicely put it.
The British aggressive and intransigent position about oil exploration, the other South Atlantic Islands and Antarctica has made it clear for everybody.
Allow me to ask you a question...what are you prepared to offer in exchange to see your demands acomplished??
If you are not prepared yet we can wait, don´t worry.
Despite a strong recovery, the economic and political crisis of 2001-02 has left its mark, particularly in the form of increased inequality and poverty. With around 35% of the population living below the poverty line there are occasional outbreaks of social unrest and demonstrations, which at times turn violent. You should monitor local media and avoid planned demonstrations and public gatherings. There has been an increase in the number of demonstrations outside the British Embassy by various activist groups in support of Argentina's position on the Falkland Islands.
enough said
The Falkland Islands Tourist Board this week launched the Islands’ first Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), a United Nations endorsed international standard for measuring the true economic impact of tourism. The TSA reveals that tourists spent £6.6 million in the Falkland Islands in the 2008-9 season, 43% of which was spent by cruise passengers, with a further 43% spent by air passengers and 14% by domestic tourists. The spend of £6.6 million represents 5% of the Falkland Islands’ GDP, which is a significant value in comparison with many other countries
And thats precisely why we are targeting it!
Plan is:
1) Cruise Lines will have to choose: Malvinas or Argentina.
(We are working on Chile and Uruguay to do the same.)
2) Working hard for the cancellation of the Lan Chile's weekly flight Punta Arenas- Port Stanley.
(The Cueto family is not totally negative to a closing of this“marginal” route in exchange for a better “slot allocation” to Buenos Aires)
Never mind that it violates free trade agreements but then what is any agreement with Argentina worth? Like loan agreements for example.
Cancelling the Lan-Chile flight won't affect the Falklands but it will simply make it more difficult for the families of the fallen to visit their relatives grave, assuming of course they get past all the crap that the Argentine Government puts in place.
Coercion, always how the “mighty” Argentina is going to impose its will, never mind the historically dubious nature of its claim, or the agreements its signed etc. Dream on, you will be ignored as usual, Argentina is utterly irrelevant to the Falklands, it made itself that way.
What pray tell is the balance of payments with the UK? Perhaps we should start targetting Argentine exports, seeing as we import 3 times what we export.
The denial of use of infrastructure to ships or airplanes destined to potential “conflictive zones “ does not violate any free trade agreement.
If you have any info that contradicts me, I would like to get a link..........
Canceling the Lan Chile flight will:
1) Deny the Islands of their first source of underpaid labor, the Chileans. No more cheap waiters, receptionists, cleaners, fishermen etc....
2) Deny the possibility of any “triangular” tourism.
3) Made clear for the Islanders that the aggressive British position on the South Atlantic/Pacific and Antarctica has antagonized others than Argentina.
4) About the families of the fallen......... a minimal extra sacrifice in comparison with what they already have given, Mr. Kuntz.
To finish, Argentina has no intention to let our little “Malvinas Issue” affect our excellent commercial relationship with Britain.
We are very happy with our commercial balance with the UK and look forward to continued and improved business with private British companies (as long as they don’t participate in any Malvinas activities, of course)
When you see a baby have a tantrum and throw all his toys from his pram do you try to ameliorate the problem or do you just laugh at him?
www.cruisetimetables.com/visitingportstanleyfalklandislands-10feb2011.html
Season 2010/2011:
Already contracted and paid. We honor, of course, all existing agreements with the Cruising Lines. We don't want to antagonize them. They are darn good business!
Season 2011/2012 and onwards:
A total different story. Cruising Lines are informed and have plenty of time to choose and decide where they want to Cruise.......
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campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/15/senators-question-whether-bp-played-role-in-pan-am-bombers-release/?iref=allsearch
They don't like to hear about their corruption or creepy, sneaky, dodgy, crooked, dishonest, dubious shady dealings.
Remember:
The British are Human and Right(s)
Cancelling the Lan Chile flight will deny Chileans the right to work abroad, so what. They're merely replaced by someone else who wants the work; ie nothing changes.
Doesn't deny the chance of triangular tourism, it will simply mean that Argentine ports miss out - like they did the last time. ie nothing changes.
There is no aggressive posture from the British or the FIG; it is you that are talking up the dispute and proposing coercive measures. The FIG has made conciliatory overtures only for Argentina to spit its dummy out. ie nothing changes.
And I simply note your utter lack of compassion for the bereaved, which simply reflects the fact that for the last 30 years Argentina has had the bad taste to use even the corpses of the dead to push its illogical, irredentist claim to land it never owned. ie nothing changes.
This is why you're irrelevant and no matter what you do it will remain that way, ie nothing changes.
Whats that got to do with us ENGLISH PIRATES that usurped in 1833 blah blah ENGLIHS COLONY blah blah.
Sometimes I wonder if you are pulling my leg or you really are so naive???
A little touristic message for all of you on the“Old Car” (min 6:30 - 6:45)
il.youtube.com/watch?v=QFrXqC77POc
Enjoy
It was a courageous decision to make on compassionate grounds, to release a very ill man to spend his final days with his family. But then as I noted early, compassion isn't high on the Argentine agenda, particularly when you can make a cheap shot. Personally I agreed with it then and still do now. Keeping the man in jail would have been spite not justice.
Don't judge people by your own low standards.
Mr. Al Megrahi has as much Cancer as I have British blood in my veins..
Zero, Nada, Rien , Niente :-)
these bloody franchutes have that contagious disease!! malvinitis!!!
But then here is an indepent document which spells it out:
www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/07/144854.htm
The decision to release Al-Megrahi was taken by the Scottish Government.
The deal supported by BP was concluded a year before he was released.
Al-Megrahi could have been transferred to a Libyan jail under the terms of the PTA. The Scottish Government chose not to.
And everything is on the public record.
Those are the facts, I disagree with the US and current UK Government's asessment that a release on compassionate grounds was wrong. To have kept a dying man in prison would have been spiteful and motivated solely by revenge, it would not have been justice.
Go on Think, spit out your usual poisonous bile, if its how you justify your rascist outlook to yourself, go for it. Just goes to show what a pathetic little man you are, judging people by standards lower than a snake's belly. Your are an utter hypocrite.
Two facts:
1) Mr. Al Megrahi is alive and kicking.
So will he be next year...and next... and next ...and next... and next.. and next........etc.
2) You government used the same “sick” excuse (on an inverse form) with your own personal dictator Mr. Augusto Pinochet.
Remember?
Pinochet who even Chilean officials recognised had dementia, what stopped him being tried in Chile? It didn't stop Argentina taking advantage of the situation to blackmail the British did it?
And how many senior members of the Junta in Argentina saw jail time, I mean serious jail time, not a light slap on the wrist house arrest.
Continue with the innuendo, people in glass houses and all that. Let the facts speak for themselves, including your own appalling record of hypocrisy and chutzpah.
My compassion lies more on the side of the 270 Lockerbie victims.
Even if my “personal” opinion is that Mr. Al Megrahi was just a “fall guy”
The embassy attack was followed by the July 18, 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires' AMIA Jewish Center, which housed several Argentine Jewish organizations, that killed 86 and wounded about 300.
After nine years, the government investigation has not produced results. Nobody has been tried. Nobody has even been arrested.
The bombing of the Buenos Aires Israeli Embassy was the biggest attack against Israel abroad. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has urged the Argentine government to “redouble efforts to find those responsible for the attack and bring them to justice.”
International organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and B'nai B'rith continue to press the Argentine government to vigorously pursue its investigation. “The embassy bombing -- and the AMIA attack -- are issues of paramount importance to Jews around the world,” said B'nai B'rith International President Richard D. Heideman. “They should be so also to Argentina and all other countries as well. They were mass murders -- committed in violation of Argentine sovereignty and in disdain for the most elemental human rights.”
The Argentine government also continues to be pressed for results by the Jewish Community of Argentina. Carlos Susevich, who lost his daughter in the attack, said, “We don't want to beg for justice, we demand it. We want the same fervor used in political speeches and campaign promises to be used to get results in the investigation.”
Why hasn’t the Argentine government succeeded to find the terrorists? Could it be a matter of incompetence or corruption?
You say:
“The denial of use of infrastructure to ships or airplanes destined to potential “conflictive zones “ does not violate any free trade agreement.
If you have any info that contradicts me, I would like to get a link..........”
Happy to help. Argentina's repressive measures against the Islanders may not violate any free trade agreement, but it does violate UN General Resolution 1514(XV) which Argentina is bound by General Assembly majority vote to uphold for the Islanders, i.e.:
en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_1514
which covers the case of the Falklands/Malvinas, which Argentina voted for and the General Assembly passed by unanimous vote 89:0 and specifically demands Argentina & all member states of the UN cease :
“All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples... in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national territory shall be respected”
and,
“ Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.”
The Islanders have used their self-determination to express their democratic wish to remain British and to retain free association with Britain.
Therefore Argentina should respect their choice, according to the UN Charter and Resolution 1514(XV).
Regarding your feigned compassion for the 270 victims of Lockerbie, its not in the least bit convincing coming from a man who lauds the Junta's invasion of the Falklands, the same Junta that murdered 30,000 Argentines.
I warned you at (17) didn't I?
“They don't like to hear about their corruption or creepy, sneaky, dodgy, crooked, dishonest, dubious shady dealings.”
You tend to shy away from yours
That is BS and you know it, I'll condemn the Government for anything that is corrupt or dodgy, like the Iraq War or Diego Garcia - and I'm on the record doing so. But then I don't need to spread smears to justify “corruption or creepy, sneaky, dodgy, crooked, dishonest, dubious shady dealings” to myself the way you feel compelled to do.
Not so long ago, you were defending the Kirschners and their “corruption or creepy, sneaky, dodgy, crooked, dishonest, dubious shady dealings”, like the suitcases of cash, the back handers etc. Don't judge people by your own standards.
Anybody can see that reading just this thread.......
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
Foul mouthed? Calling BS when you're spouting it is simply direct speech.
Equally anyone reading this thread can see you for the mendacious hypocrite that you are.
Stick a fork in this one, its done.
The British are Human and Right
THINK this is the most honest thing you have said, and we all agree with you,
well done, we will convert you yet,
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38256677/ns/world_news-europe
Think , I love the message written on that car: Malvinas Argentinas.
UK always will do anything for money.. and then put excuses and lies to justify their illegal actions.
:-)))))))))))))))
The slogan of the Argentinean dictatorship was:
”The Argentinean are Human and Right(s)“
So.... No surprise that you lot likes:
”The British are Human and Right(s)”
www.globalpolitician.com/21744-argentina-bolivia
Human exploitation by humans is a big concern for our government and we work hard everyday to make conditions better for our fellow citizens.
Just like Britain:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster
And again for the Argentines who missed it, the Prisoner Transfer Agreement was agreed a year before Megrahi was released. There was nothing to stop him being transferred to a Libyan jail.
But then as it seems that Argentines have no compassion or respect for Human Rights please continue with the smears. Judging people by your own standard merely shows how low they are.
So if you're so concerned about corruption, why do you invest so much in defending the Kirschners. So what isn't corrupt about a suitcase full of cash in the middle of an election.
And the argies?
Let us consider your comments on this thread:
No.17. Diversion. From an expert in the field of corruption or creepy, sneaky, dodgy, crooked, dishonest, dubious shady dealings. An Argentine. No.22. You are a doctor? And you have examined the individual? More diversionary crap! No.26. Where do you get your crystal ball? Or is just “voices in your head”? Another unsupported diversion. No.28. Too late for compassion for the victims. Your “compassion” would be more appropriate to the bereaved relatives. And “fall guy”? You have evidence. Sorry, I was forgetting. He comes from a country much like your own!! No.32. No response to 29-31. Just a little private conversation with your brother delinquent. No.35. But you don't debate. You just interject mindless, irrelevant, snide remarks. So how would you be qualified to judge? No.48. The only exploitation your “government” is concerned with as how much of it they can get away with before the deluded population finds out the real truth.
So. Inescapable conclusions. You. Waste of space. Hot air. Narcissist. Snide. Conceited. Argentine.
The yanks are very good at conspiracy theories, making tenuous connections where there are none! I sometimes wonder if they have Erich von Danniken working for them!
Megrahi was given a compassionate release based on the best medical evidence available at that time, by Scotland's justice minister.
My own feeling is that Megrahi was simply the fall-guy.
What ever happened to the guy in Malta who reportedly emigrated to Oz? I doubt we'll ever know the real truth, sadly!
It has nothing to do with BP, Westminster, Cameron or Obama and they should all keep their gobs shut till they KNOW what they're talking about.
Whatever grilling Cameron gets in the states is nothing compared to the stick he'll get when he comes up here ..or deserves to get at any rate!!
THERE IS NO CONNECTION!!!
Ahhh..... Mr Von Däniken he was a character (just checked, he’s still alive!)
“There is no connection!!! “You say......
Old story, BP has already admitted it.
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66E1JJ20100715
How many other Libyan prisoners where/are in British jails?
How many have been exchanged or released not counting Mr. Al Megrahi?
And then the classical “Washing of Hands”
“It was not us it was Scotland!”
“It is not ours it’s the Falkland’s”
“BP is not British, it’s international”
Just hot air. Be useful for once. Trot off and contribute to your “country's” methane production.
BP lobbied the UK Government, openly, it did not lobby the Scottish Government who alone had the ability to release Megrahi under the PTA or on compassionate grounds.
Yes is leaves the UK open to smears by people with an agenda but its better than closed door deals with suitcases of cash the way they do it in Argentina.
And yes BP is international, its BP Amoco, stemming from a merger with a major US company. The initials BP haven't stood for British Petroleum for some time.
So again, please explain why you resort to smears, yet defend the Kirschners caught bang to rights with a suitcase full of cash for cough, cough ... er.....um .....“consultancy fees” (bribes)? Hypocrisy, nationalist jingoism and a complete lack of either credibility or principle?
Think more insult less.
The Kirchners are quite well off.... Yes...and getting richer by using politics... Yes.... Probably corrupt ... Yes.... Never denied it.
But........................Nobody is presenting any proof.
Even their worst enemies can only produce something like this:
“The fortune of Argentine presidential couple Cristina and Nestor Kirchner soared 700% since they first took office in 2003, according to their latest income statements delivered to the country’s Anti Corruption Office.
en.mercopress.com/2010/07/09/kirchner-couple-fortune-climbs-20.6-in-one-year-totalling-14.5-million-usd
But after that................... just a lot of hot air........
700% increase in seven years ......remarkably good but hardly impossible.........
In comparison; their fortune is only 1/3 of Tony Blair’s£ 40 million:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/01/mystery-tony-blair-finances
Or 1/5 of Mark Tatcher’s £60 million:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3597196.stm
I refresh your memory about the fact that your politicians get very rich very fast too.
Maybe not by buying cheap land in Surrey but by negotiating big Arms Contracts or getting incredibly well paid retirement jobs in “African” Oil Companies or unusual mixtures of commercial, charitable and religious income streams or whatever.....
So stop whining and get real........
Where did I ever defend Mark Thatcher? Never commented on him, I do think his dealings are dodgy.
As usual Red Herrings to distract from your own failings.
You did defend the Kirschners and yet acknowledge they are corrupt - specific example suitcase full of cash. Specific example, documented fact which I note you ignore yet again.
All you've claimed about Megrahi is smears and innuendo, zero basis in fact. You take what is in the open, try to make more out of it than there is. The guy was given 3 months, he's terminally ill. Point of fact, my grandfather had terminal cancer and was given 3 months, stubborn bastard took 10 years to die just to prove them wrong.
I am whining about nothing, I'm confronting a mendacious, lying hypocrite that is all.
So stop whining and get real
should be branded on every Argies forhead in relation to Falklands concerning the Falklands
In short, yet another similarity between Britain and Argentina.
Corruption is a plague and should be eradicated.....
I do like the Kirchners, no secret about that. They are doing a great job.
I do like Lula da Silva, no secret about that. He is doing a great job.
I do like Pepe Mujica, no secret about that. He is doing a great job.
I do like Evo Morales, no secret about that. He is doing a great job.
I do like Fernando Lugo, no secret about that. He is doing a great job.
I even like Sebastian Piñera. He is doing an OK job.
Lawyers, union man, freedom fighter, indian peasant, catholic bishop or billionaire. All of them fine democratic elected presidents.
Thirthy years ago South America was one of the bleakest places on this planet
Today we have a bright future.
And Malvinas is the perfect catalizator for our new progressive forces.
An oddity in the South Atlantic defended by a group of grumblers with a deep nostalgic colonial frustration.
No defended by Her Majesty's Armed Forces,and that is what so frustrates you bullies
And by what percentage has your fortune “soared” in the same period, Twinky?
“Today we have a bright future.” Turn around, you've been staring into the sun for too long. Try the real world. Export markets collapsing, energy supplies failing, can't work in international money markets, tiny archipelago 300 miles away telling you to bugger off and mind your own business, international forums you have managed to subvert not really helping your illegal aspirations. What a sorry bunch you are.
“It was not us it was Scotland!”
“It is not ours it’s the Falkland’s”
“BP is not British, it’s international”
1. Scotland is britain.
2. The islands are “ours” untill they wish not to be.
3. A mostly american owned company who messed up while being staffed by mexicans. Not a british matter.
There we have it folks, Think in a nutshell.
”The British are Human and Right,, yes think, as you said,
you crafty old fox, you always admired the british, hearts and minds week, be nice to our secret admirers, , you cant cant get away from it, you like the british,
I don't specially dislike them
.........
yahhhhh, we know you admired the brits you old dog,
still you need to take sides, , think is a brit admirer
What a gay town Buenos Aires will be. Won't be able to turn round for................!
Actually, probably best not to turn around.
The same as London and many other british cities, right?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLzDC6bLPE&feature=related
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