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Alarm in Ushuaia: cruise calls are forecasted to drop 20% this season
Tierra del Fuego province, in the extreme south of Argentina, and its capital Ushuaia is anticipating a 20% fall in the cruise business this coming season 2009/10 compared to 2008/09 according to the president of the regional tourism institute. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood I hear this ships pollute the antartic ocean with polymeter from plastic bottles, besides we can make that money back by selling fishing licences in Islas Malvinas Argentina.
Sep 01st, 2010 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why mercopress didn´t inform about the new ferry link betwen Usuhaia and Port Williams??
Sep 01st, 2010 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.cronista.com/notas/244078-el-transbordador-del-bicentenario-unira-la-argentina-chile
Gassy. Please explain how Argentina can profit from fishing licences in waters that it has no control over. You are slipping into delusion again, have you been playing computer games pretending to invade the Falklands? Put it this way, you are making no money in the Falkland Islands but I am :-)
Sep 01st, 2010 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose you are happy that your countrymen in Tierra del Fuego are going to lose out on income.
Pablo Pfurr commented that cruise companies are profit orientatd! Wow, that is a revelation a private company that wants to make a profit. This guy clearly has a PhD in Business Economics.
This article identifes the problems with doing business in Argentina, companies taxed to death an imbeciles in charge.
This article identifes the problems with doing business in Argentina, companies taxed to death an imbeciles in charge...yeah..VIVA ARGENTINA, VIVA THE K'S. Let's hope they will be re-elected again and again..LAUGH.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, Nicholas, but the Ks benefit from the cruise season too...they are everywhere...making this country...eer...their wallet...greater. Sorry my Argentina to be equaled to that pair of usurers.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0And so we must continue the lobbying campaign to persuade cruise lines that no-one wants to stop in Argentina, so their liners shouldn't stop there either.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0jejeje; yes please conqueror continue your lobby against argentina and against your kelpers mate too.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0A drop in argentine calls means a drop in malvinas calls too; do your homework.
Oh no, Hazy. Cruise liners will still stop in the Falkland Islands. And probably Chile, Uruguay and Brazil as well. Just a little indication of what can happen to a country when it becomes a rogue state.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sorry mate, that´s your wish but reality say something else.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Be honest. Why would anyone want to enter your crime-ridden towns to look at your hovels?
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fortunately, new Chilean Gvt. is taking measures to help that calls at Chilean Southern ports start rising again next years changing the policies about the tourism industry.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The EPA Director Board (Southern Port Enterprise, gvt owned but as a private company) was changed entirely and a new CEO will be named soon with the main task to offer the best service at the minimun rates through a improved management and new infrastructure. The floating cassinos will be permited to operate when they be sailing the Chilean inland waters, the Tourism Service, National and Regional, head had been changed and they must help the Austrochile AG (Private Tourism Operators Chamber) requirements be considered and a big international campaigne will soon start to attrack new markets to Chielean beauties.
The Reginal Mayor (Intendenta Regional) is coming from the tourism business where she owned a important company on the Torres del Paine National Park, so she has well knowledge and interest to develope this area of the Magallanes economic developement and she had propossed to rise to a one million tourist visiting our Region at the end of her term on 2014 (now we have an average of 600.000 visitor per year).
That's the way that things must be done.....
I don´t know typoon, perhaps that question can be answered by the 3-4 millons people that every year visit argentina.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sergio, great news for the region, is about time that chile lift that ban to cassinos.
Well, we have the same figures of vistors for the whole Chile, 3,6 millions tought, half of them from Argentina and L.A.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hazy. Only so other L.A.'s can see what real hovels look like!
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Billy -7 Actually Falkands Cruise Ship calls are heading UP this coming season(we were expecting a downturn)! You can also see from the antarctic expedition type ship schedules that a few more this year are doing pax exchanges in Punta Arenas instead of Ushuaia, and one or two more here as well.
Sep 02nd, 2010 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.....”Put it this way, you are making no money in the Falkland Islands but I am :-)”......
Sep 03rd, 2010 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0- You are not making money, you are stealing money. Enjoy it while you can. :-)
gorge is back. Frothing at both ends as he indulges in his favourite activity......f**king himself!
Sep 03rd, 2010 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being an argy he, of course, knows about stealing as it's the only thing argies are good at!!
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Sep 03rd, 2010 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I just want the treasures” claimed Admiral Whitelocke.
“But they are ready for asking our protectorate”, replied his subordinate William Beresford.
“F***ing protectorate, all the same rubbish, go and take the Viceroy treasure now”, finish the admiral.
Dialogue repeated during last 204 years in our region.
This would be from the Argentine history. Unfortunately, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, was not in the same expedition as Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke AND, by the time Whitelocke landed, was in England.
Sep 04th, 2010 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Terrible historians these Argentines!
It is to be hoped that those responsible for the development and promotion of tourism in the region are a little more cerebral than most of the commentators on here (SV excluded). The whole region, whether it is Chile, Argentina, South Georgia or the Falklands faces a significant challenge for the next few years to maintain market interest in a diminished market. The level of cost and the difficulties of doing business will be key factors, but never forget the biggest issue is that there are plenty of other places to go at lower cost.
Sep 06th, 2010 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0They won't get to see the Antarctic and some of our other spectacular sites, but many are content/forced to put it off. Arguing with each other is unlikely to result in more success for tourism businesses; the economic climate combined with new IMO rules on heavy fuel oil and some hopefully clearer thinking on safety in the Antarctic is likely to result in permanently lower numbers.
So the quality of the product and service is what matters. Ask the captains and officers where they prefer to go and why. The answers are predictable, but largely ignored.
20.- I agree with you completily. The Antarctic market will be more complicated next years due the new enviromental requirements.
Sep 06th, 2010 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 Harri
Sep 06th, 2010 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have to say that you are right, I made a mistake cos I trusted only in my memory!
But we can learn history yet: where it says: “Whitelocke”, you have to put: “Popham” and everything will fit as The Times wrote on september 7, 1807, referring to the final results of the invasions :
”This has been an awful expedition from the start. National interests, as our military pride, have been seriously hurted. The original plan was a bad one and worse was its execution. Nothing honourable or worthy...Has been a dirty and sordid enterprise.
How we could expect that the people´s hands and hearts go in our side, if the first in occupying the city (Buenos Aires) were less anxious in gaining the people but in putting at save the looted treasure?”
BTW: Whitelocke was INCLUDED in this critical piece of press.
204 years and counting...
“Popham was recalled, and censured by a court martial for leaving his station; but the City of London presented him with a sword of honour for his endeavours to ”open new markets,“ and the sentence did him limited harm.”
Sep 06th, 2010 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just can't trust newspapers, can you?
Both are true...
Sep 06th, 2010 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Could be dirty and sordid...only for the gains...but: that is exactly what the City acknowledge as good.
And if the natives react...“we will send them a nuke”.
204 years and counting!
Let us know when you get to 2004 years and counting, won't you?
Sep 06th, 2010 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sorry, our clock has a top.
Sep 06th, 2010 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The book, by prominent journalist Sylvina Walger, describes Nestor Kirchner, the former leader, as a “parallel president” who takes all the important decisions for Cristina and flies into a fury if she disobeys him.”
Sep 07th, 2010 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“All that's left of that marriage is the question of how to divide the spoils of power,” says Walger.“
”Walger's unflattering portrayal of Nestor Kirchner will thrill political opponents, who regard with horror his prospect of winning a second term in next year's elections. He is described in the book as “mean, petty, vengeful and envious”.
“One reason she goes on so many foreign trips, says Walger, is to scout for mansions for the couple's eventual retirement.”
“The Kirchners have certainly prospered. The 600% growth in their personal fortune, to almost 12 million USD, since 2003 has prompted allegations of corruption since their combined annual income as President and former president is only $157,000. Opposition leaders have accused the couple of using inside information to engage in currency speculation.
The Kirchners own a luxury hotel and other businesses in the Patagonian resort of El Calafate and, according to Walger, a former Peronist militant, they also have 19 houses and 14 flats.”
Oh what fun it is when the truth starts to come out.
You will be sure to put your house in order before you come out, won't you?
Surely we will try, let´s you make the same - trying not to declare wars on a false base, just for a bit of kurdistani oil.
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