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Falkland Islands: Tourists spending more shows survey
Visitor expenditure in the Falklands increased from both land-based tourists and cruise passengers last season. With all the figures from Immigration now in, and the cruise and air surveys analysed, the Tourist Board has a good picture of how last season performed they told Penguin News. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood to hear, good luck FALKLANDERS.
Jun 30th, 2017 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse +3Hepatia will respond to this news article in the next twenty five years. (Well done to the islanders BTW!)
Jun 30th, 2017 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse +3It is necessary to reach an agreement with Argentina for the flights and to establish a tourist circuit Malvinas / Ushuaia, Bariloche, Rio Gallegos, Buenos Aires, etc. and vice versa.
Jun 30th, 2017 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse -3Perhaps Think has emigrated to open an ice cream stall on the quay?
Jun 30th, 2017 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +2@Malvinense 1833. What rubbish. When CFK started issuing edicts against tour ships because they had visited the Falklands, they skipped your grotty country and went on to Chile where they were greeted with a warm welcome. As to flights, At the moment there is a flight from Chile that is obliged to touch down in Argentina. I believe that there are talks afoot to fly to other South American destinations which have sod all to do with Argentina.
Jun 30th, 2017 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +3@HughJuanCoeurs. The politicians are wrong, you have to open the doors, do not close them.
Jun 30th, 2017 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse -1England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Jul 02nd, 2017 - 02:40 am - Link - Report abuse -2HJC
Jul 03rd, 2017 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse +2The BOT kicked in on cue.
@Malvinense 1833
Jul 06th, 2017 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It is necessary to reach an agreement with Argentina for the flights and to establish a tourist circuit ”
That depends on whether or not the tourists visiting the Falklands wish to go to Argentina.
The cruise ships are not (currently) based in the Falklands, so an agreement with Argentina is not necessary.
To give your countrymen some credit, they don't appear to be burning tyres on the quaysides as an 'ingenious' method of attracting foreign tourists anymore.
Previously, this 'welcome' meant that cruise ships calling in at the Falklands went to Chile instead.
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