Tourism

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 07:42 UTC

  World Tourism Day, September 27, this year is celebrated in New Delhi

  

  The following is the message from Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State (IC) for Tourism & Culture, Government of India. India is pleased to host the official celebrations of United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) World Tourism Day in New Delhi.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 07:53 UTC

  Johnson asks how come Thomas Cook directors paid themselves large sums when a business goes down the tube

  

  After the collapse of Thomas Cook left hundreds of thousands of passengers reliant on the British state to repatriate them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson questioned whether bosses should have paid themselves so much ahead of its demise.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 08:22 UTC

  Polar expedition experts meet for international Field Guide Conference

  

  Polar field guides are descending on Sturbridge, Massachusetts for the third bi-annual International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) joint Polar Field Staff Conference.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 03:34 UTC

  Thomas Cook collapse forces the largest peacetime repatriation effort in UK history

  

  Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded on Monday by the collapse of the world’s oldest travel firm Thomas Cook, sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 18:47 UTC

  Thomas Cook goes bankrupt, leaves passengers stranded and workers jobless

  

  The British 178-year-old Thomas Cook Group Plc. tour operators have filed for bankruptcy in the United Kingdom, leaving some 600,000 tourists stranded at their holiday destinations, which has prompted the government to launch a massive airlift to bring them back home using 45 chartered airliners.

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 13:33 UTC

  Meet the world’s ‘coolest’ post office's new antarctic team

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal the new Port Lockroy team who will live and work on the remote island of Port Lockroy off the Antarctic Peninsula during the next Austral Antarctic summer (November 2019 – March 2020).

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 10:20 UTC

  Floating bookstore 'Logos Hope' opens in Rio

  

  The world's largest floating bookstore - the Logos Hope - with a crew of 400 volunteers from 60 nations Thursday opened its doors to the public to offer books on a large assortment of subjects. The vessel has visited over 1,400 ports in 150 countries worldwide. Most recently, she stopped at Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina.

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 10:43 UTC

  Argentine veteran decries planned Cordoba-Mt Pleasant flight

  

  Former Argentine Army conscript Edgardo Esteban Wednesday claimed LATAM Brasil's planned Sao Paulo-Mount Pleasant passenger flight with a stop in the Argentine city of Córdoba serves only the interests of the Falkland islanders.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 20:57 UTC

  Angry Embraer workers threaten to go on strike in Brazil

  

  Unions representing workers at Brazil's aircraft factory Embraer are ready to go on strike indefinitely strike as salary bargaining seems to be deadlocked. The measure could start as early as next Monday, sources at the company's commercial aircraft plant in São José dos Campos confirmed on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  Uruguay hosting a cruise industry conference at the end of September

  

  Uruguay will be hosting at the end of the month, September 26/27, the VII edition of the Regional Encounter of the Cruise industry and Fluvial nautical tourism, organized by Uruguay's ministries of Transport and Tourism the Ports Administration and county governments from Maldonado, Montevideo and Colonia.