Tag: Ushuaia

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:37 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ economy ‘strangling’ and intimidation by Argentina reported in British media

  

  Argentina’s ongoing attempts to strangle the Falkland Islands economy by intimidating cruise vessels from calling at Stanley and other islands has been picked up by the Daily Mail in an article written by Ian Drury.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 09:09 UTC

  Chile considers IAATO meeting a great success; many operators looking to work from Magallanes

  

  The Chilean government efforts to develop Puerto Williams in the extreme south of the country as an austral tourism centre and gateway to Antarctica received an ‘excellent’ feedback from the recent IAATO annual meeting held in Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentine and Chilean ports publish book to promote cruise visits to Patagonia

  

  Five Argentine and Chilean Patagonia ports have teamed up to promote their tourism attractions and potential for the cruise industry by launching a hardcover limited edition book (1.000), in English and Spanish, with digital support under the heading of “Patagonia, cruises destination”.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 04:10 UTC

  Malvinas radical group begins campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine radical group involved in actions against cruise vessels and maritime traffic with the Falkland Islands has promised a similar campaign against Lan Chile offices in Buenos Aires, the airline which flies the only link of the Islands with the continent.

• Monday, April 22nd 2013 - 08:54 UTC

  Antarctica tour operators hold four-day annual meeting in Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile will be hosting until next Thursday the four-day annual meeting of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, IAATO which has a confirmed attendance of over a hundred representatives from the industry.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 21:15 UTC

  “Malvinazo” out-blasted in Ushuaia by ‘Star Princess’ playing “God save the Queen”

  

  A demonstration by pickets in the Argentine Tierra del Fuego port of Ushuaia protesting the docking of the ‘Star Princess’ cruise which arrived from the Falkland Islands was contained by local security forces and the blaring of ‘God save the Queen’.

• Friday, February 15th 2013 - 19:35 UTC

  February 1833: Parallel truths in parallel universes: can that be the only explanation?

  

  By John Fowler - According to the Argentine view of things, the Falkland Islands are Las Islas Malvinas and the capital city is not Stanley, which was founded in 1844, but Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which did not really begin to be a town till 1881 with the establishment of a penal colony there.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 05:12 UTC

  The 2012/13 cruise season: a new case of Argentine intolerance towards Malvinas

  

  Most probably this cruise season 2012/2013 will be remembered not for the record number of calls or visitors (estimated in half a million) but as a new case of Argentine intolerance with the Malvinas Islands in centre stage, writes La Nacion columnist Emiliano Galli.

• Friday, December 14th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  P&O cruise vessels choose Falklands over Ushuaia, Puerto Madryn and Buenos Aires

  

  P&O, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation Plc and one of the world’s leading cruise operators will be omitting Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia and Buenos Aires from its 2013 season because of the difficulties encountered by its red ensign vessels in Argentine ports during recent months. However the company confirms that the vessels will continue to call in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 08:05 UTC

  Falklands’ dispute triggers concern among Argentine tourism operators after two cruises omit Ushuaia

  

  Ushuaia tourism operators expressed concern and called for common sense to prevail after two major cruises finally decided this week not to call at in Argentine Tierra del Fuego after local authorities could not guarantee that the visiting vessels would not be exposed to the same intimidation tactics and delays experienced recently in Buenos Aires and earlier this year in the extreme south terminal because they include the Falkland Islands in their itineraries.