Tag: cruises

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 05:40 UTC

  Uruguay anticipates 230 cruise calls this season from November to May

  

  Uruguay expects a record cruise season beginning November with over 230 calls split between Montevideo and Punta del Este, 80 miles to the east on the Atlantic coast line, according to Deputy Tourism minister Lilian Kechichián.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 23:17 UTC

  South Georgia expects 51 cruise calls and 5.000 visitors for the 2011/12 season

  

  Fifty one cruise visits have been booked for the current 2011/12 season in South Georgia, extreme South Atlantic, with a potential number of 6.350 visitors (were they all to be full), but with the actual figure likely to be nearer to 5.000. Two cruises “L'Austral” and “Island Sky” will be making their first ever visit to South Georgia.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 01:25 UTC

  Good prospects for Falklands’ tourism arrivals, with cruise visitors up 17%

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has just completed its latest Falklands Forecast and all indications are showing a positive increase across the board for the 2011-2012 tourism season.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 21:59 UTC

  Boost for cruise industry: vessels can operate casinos in Chilean waters

  

  The Chilean Senate unanimously approved this week the bill allowing cruise vessels to operate their onboard casinos while sailing in Chilean waters.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 13:29 UTC

  Five new ships for the coming cruise season in the Falkland Islands

  

  Five ships will make their inaugural visits to the Falklands during the coming cruise ship season, reports the Penguin News.The luxurious Seabourn Sojourn (450 passenger capacity) will be among these, along with Island Sky (118 pax) mega yacht L’Austral (264 pax) MS Artania (1200 pax) and Adonia (710 pax).

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 08:58 UTC

  Gibraltar ‘invaded’ by 7.000 cruise passengers; 330.000 expected this season

  

  Gibraltar’s Main Street was a hive of activity on Tuesday as two cruise ships carrying over 7,000 passengers arrived in the Rock. The “Independence of the Seas” and the “Grand Princess” both arrived early in the morning carrying 4,200 passengers and 2,900 passengers respectively, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian cruise industry expects sharp slowdown because of limited port capacity

  

  After growing 20% annually over the past ten years and reaching a level of 800,000 tourists annually, the pace of cruise expansion in Brazil is expected to encounter a sharp slowdown in the 2011-2012 season.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:25 UTC

  Falkland Islands: 64,000 visitors this year predicts Tourist Board

  

  VISITOR arrivals in 2011 including inbound overnight tourists, cruise passengers and domestic tourists are expected to total almost 64,000, spending £6.85 million, according to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board forecast for the first quarter of 2011.

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 22:52 UTC

  Cruise vessels would be allowed to operate casinos while docked in Gibraltar

  

  Senior cruise executives from across the globe showed “considerable interest” in plans to permit gambling on cruise ships docked overnight in Gibraltar.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 17:06 UTC

  Seatrade Conference: South America cruise vessel operating costs ‘unbearable’

  

  Cruise vessel operating costs in South America are becoming unbearable according to company representatives speaking at the South America Seatrade Conference.