Tag: cruise season

Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:24 UTC
Punta Arenas expects some 170 cruise calls this season, beginning 14 September

Some 170 cruise calls and an estimated 100,000 visitors are what the Punta Arenas, Austral Ports Enterprise, Epaiustral, is expecting for the coming 2024/25 season. Of these 128 are internationally flagged vessels, while the remaining fifty belong to local Chilean cruise companies, the Ventus and the Stella Australis.
Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 17:22 UTC
Punta del Este cruise season launched

This year's cruise season was launched this week at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este during a ceremony presided over by Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera, who pointed out that some of the 232 scheduled to arrive between October 2023 and April 2024, 74 would call there.
Tuesday, September 26th 2023 - 09:04 UTC
The 2023/24 cruise season officially takes off in Ushuaia with high expectations

With the arrival of the Magellan Explorer, Ushuaia officially announced the beginning of the 2023/2024 cruise season which is expected to attract 548 vessel calls and some 195,000 visitors to the most southern port of Argentina in Tierra del Fuego province.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:14 UTC
Ushuaia expects some 540 cruise calls this season, “hopefully an estimated 200,000 visitors”

The current cruise season means some 200,000 tourists will be visiting the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, based on the announced projection of 540 calls in Ushuaia, according to Dante Querciali, president of Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Uruguay confirms promising cruise season ahead

Uruguayan tourism authorities have confirmed 143 calls in Montevideo and 40 in Punta del Este for the upcoming cruise season after meetings between a delegation led by Undersecretary Remo Monzeglio with representatives of the cruise industry and authorities of the Port of Buenos Aires, it was reported Friday.
Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:21 UTC
Ushuaia expects 250,000 visitors in 2022/23 cruise season

Next cruise season, 2022/23, the port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego province is expecting 535 calls and the arrival of some 250,000 visitors, according to estimates by Argentine officials attending the Seatrade Global Cruise, the largest fair of its kind which takes place annually in Miami.
Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Punta Arenas satisfied with 2021/22 cruise season, “we successfully managed to re launch activities”

Next Tuesday a cruise vessel will be calling at Puerto Williams in Chile officially marking the end of the 2021/22 cruise season in that country, which local authorities from Punta Arenas consider very satisfactory, given the activity generated since November 2021, after 18 months of pandemic restrictions.
Wednesday, March 16th 2022 - 09:41 UTC
Ushuaia and Punta Arenas consider the 2021/2022 cruise season over

Two companies that were still organizing Antarctic cruises, over the weekend and almost coincidentally announced that the current trips would be the last, in effect putting an end to a short season.
Thursday, March 3rd 2022 - 22:09 UTC
Brazil to resume cruise season shortly

One day after reports from Rio de Janeiro heralded wearing facemasks indoors may soon be over, the Brazilian Cruise Association (Clia) Thursday announced the resumption of the 2021/2022 cruise season as of this coming Saturday, March 5.
Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:31 UTC
Brazil's Sanitary regulator strongly recommends suspending the cruise season: Covid-19 in several vessels

Brazil's National Sanitary Surveillance Agency, ANVISA has advised the suspension of the cruise season because of several covid-19 outbreaks onboard pleasure vessels sailing along the Brazilian coast.