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Argentine travel agencies promote Falklands' weeklong tour package
The network of Argentine travel agencies under the umbrella organization Lufthansa CityCenter, has come up with a package for Argentines wishing to travel to the Falkland Islands, in search of a cultural approach with an emotive tour of the historic sites of the Islands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGreat source of income for the Falklands.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Diversification is the key to prosperity.
Anything is possible without the freaking k's running loose.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe the tour package can include a stroll past the argie minefields.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What us this rg preoccupation with revisiting their own failures all about?
Apr 18th, 2016 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Regardless of who lays claim to them, who wants a see a barren rocks thousands of miles from civilization? It's not exactly the Galapago s now is it?
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0aaah a visit to Goose Green where Argies were used for bayoneting.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sweet
@5
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't know, have you been there?
Thousands of miles from civilization.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He finally got something right.
We're still waiting that from you Chronic.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Deaf, often?
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My bad, didn't hear you.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5 “who wants a see a barren rocks thousands of miles from civilization?”
Apr 18th, 2016 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Once the argie shite was cleaned off, those rocks looked pretty good.
A rock is a fucking rock. Why Argentina want's it is beyond me, but that is there problem. Argentina should be happy that Britain sup[ports them, but I understand they can't afford to send naval patrols there anymore. But like I said a rock is a rock. Martha's Vineyard, one of the many islands off Massachusetts has a GDP ten times those islands and 40 times more things to do. Why fight over the rock, they can't even get affordable crude out of the area.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but don't the argentine government ban all companies and others from having anything to do with the Falkland's,
Apr 18th, 2016 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or is it just the Chileans they like fining..
It's possible, honestly I don't know the answer to that. I think that mad, hag witch announced some edict like that. She's gone and with any luck, Macri will have her in jail before the end of his term. If businesses were barred from doing business with the Islanders, would that not amount to the US embargo on Cuba that the entire world pissed and moaned over, or not? And why would citizens be allowed to visit but no businesses trade? Who knows, politics world wide leaves much to be desired.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It will be interesting to see how much interest there is. From our point of view the more law abiding international visitors the better; it's all new money. The tour operators now do quite a decent trade for our size and given the extra mystique some Argentines have for the place I would think they'll sell some seats. It's not like we don't already see a considerable number of Argentine tourists.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15 Capt.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good point about the Cuban blockade hypocrisy.
@16 Joe Bloggs
The more people visit and become educated, the better.
Most of the younger 'visitors' in '82 were very surprised and disillusioned when they saw the story.
Jo, good to hear from you. I agree, tourism is a great export earner and diversification is what the Falklands needs and has been great at doing for the past couple of decades.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A small nation as yours should harness a potential market that is close by. This does not mean that there aren't issues but not everything needs to be seen through the sovereignty or Kirchner prism.
17 Troy
Apr 18th, 2016 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with you we, we need to welcome all potential tourists and as Skip says, especially the ones from nearby. Please excuse us if we tend to keep one eye on any potential hidden agendas though.
Just my opinion, but I think you're more likely to find rogue RG citizens then a organized. covert action on the islands. Maybe when Cuntlips was destroying and pillaging Argentina that may have been a consideration. Mari is a deep rooted businessman. Making a claim or expanding resources on an action the he himself knows is unattainable would be lost dollars, pesos. Unlike Kirchner, he seems to care about waste.
Apr 18th, 2016 - 11:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just my 2 cents and I'm not an islander. But, like you I have others to keep my eyes on as well. Trust me, you'd rather be watching Argentina than sand fleas.
As someone who has visited both (MV I think at least four times; went fishing each each year after auditing a weld-shop in North Andover, launching at a place called Wilsons if I remember correctly), I'll take the Falklands any day. To each their own. GPD of an island is certainly no measure of a place's appeal for some of us; my current location being a very good case in point (Singapore).
Apr 19th, 2016 - 12:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Though I do love Block Island, but that's part of the state RI. Must have been one huge welding business.
Apr 19th, 2016 - 02:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0What's a good measure then, if not the economy......tourism?
Tourism is one of Australia's largest exports. The knock on effect is amazing and can permeate the entire economy.
Apr 19th, 2016 - 03:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sure there will be trouble-makers. But even the trouble-makers spend their money there so inadvertently they will be actually supporting and bolstering the Falkland's independence from Argentina.
Argies will have the chance to see how much better Argentina would be under British rule!
Apr 19th, 2016 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 024. Monkeys would do a better job at managing the country than Argys.
Apr 19th, 2016 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least it couldn't be any worse.
You seem to intimately know those monkeys......family?
Apr 20th, 2016 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Maybe the tour package can include a stroll past the argie minefields.”
Apr 20th, 2016 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0past? - you mean “through”, right?
@19 Jo
Apr 20th, 2016 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ I agree with you we, we need to welcome all potential tourists”
Even if this runner comes with his indoctrinated education, there is always the opportunity to reveal the truth to him.
I bet many Argentine tourists have returned home with a different view, having seen how different the Islands are to the propaganda they have been force fed.
28 Pete
Apr 20th, 2016 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree with you. If you look on his thread you'll see I just asked him his view on sovereignty; let's see what he says. I respect him for coming on here and submitting himself to Q&A. If he says he doesn't support our right to British sovereignty so be it; I'll still respect his right to say it. If he still then comes the only question then is will Falkland Islanders wish to engage him in debate the grown up and mature way or the Argentine (Top Gear) way. I already know the answer to that. We are not thugs.
@29 Jo
Apr 22nd, 2016 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you are aware, even people from UK are fed rubbish from the press about the Falklands, i.e.-snows all the time, permanently wet, goes dark every day at 4pm, no trees, nothing grows, no social life-all a ridiculous pile of rubbish. It is even worse that Argentines are indoctrinated at school in addition to the media, but in a way, that makes it easier for visiting Argentines to realise what lies they have been fed. This guy at least seems to want to hear what Islanders say, which has got to be a better attitude than 'the Islanders don't exist'. Visiting the Falklands, talking to many people there, and experiencing the place soon dispels the myths.
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