Tag: Argentina tourism

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 21:17 UTC

  Tourists are cashing in on Argentina’s economic woes

  

  International travelers are flocking to Argentina, taking advantage of the poorly performing peso to boost the value of their holiday spending money, according to latest data.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  Ushuaia looking ahead to a great 2018/19 Antarctica cruise season

  

  Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego province in the extreme south of Argentina will again be the main hub for Antarctica cruises with an estimated 284 calls involving 36 vessels, according to the provincial Tourism Institute. Overall Ushuaia will receive 375 calls, (Antarctica and non Antarctica cruises) totaling some 120.000 visitors.

• Friday, December 29th 2017 - 10:26 UTC

  Argentina aggressively promoting cruise tourism with lower costs for large vessels

  

  Argentina is expecting 490.000 cruise visitors this season and is targeting a million visitors in the following years, and to promote this policy it has announced a drastic cut in port fees and costs, with special emphasis on those vessels which are over 300 meters long.

• Monday, March 30th 2015 - 10:36 UTC

  Ushuaia expects 2014/15 cruise season to total over 100.000 visitors

  

  Over 100.000 visitors will have landed in Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina by the end of the current 2014/2015 cruise season, anticipated for mid April, according to official stats from the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, InFueTur.