Tourism

• Monday, January 15th 2018 - 04:23 UTC

  Norway laughs at Australia's blooper on polar bear attacks

  

  Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a helpful clarification for Australian travelers, who had been warned by their government about Norwegian polar bear attacks.

• Sunday, January 14th 2018 - 12:42 UTC

  The “ship of the millionaires” comes to Punta del Este

  

  Imagine having breakfast with an explorer and documentalist who turns out to be Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter. Or listen to a conference aboard the Nobel Prize in Physics Shuji Nakamura. Imagine waking up one day on an exotic island and the other in one of the great capitals of the world. Imagine owning a floating apartment worth between 1.2 and 7.5 million dollars.

• Saturday, January 13th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  Record breaking year for London Heathrow Airport: 78 million passengers

  

  A record breaking 78 million passengers travelled through London Heathrow Airport in 2017, up 3.1% on last year with passenger volumes driven by larger and fuller aircraft. Heathrow became one of the fastest growing major European hubs for cargo, with 1.7 million metric tons travelling through the airport – equivalent to the weight of 134,000 London buses or 136 London Shards.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Seatrade Cruise Global returns to the renovated Miami Beach Convention Center

  

  Seatrade Cruise Global, the leading annual global business-to-business event in the cruise industry, will return to the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center 8-11 April 2019 after a three year stint at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  Workshop on Chinese outbound tourism scheduled at FITUR in Madrid

  

  The UN World Tourism Organization, WTO, Awards on Innovation and Excellence in Tourism, African and Middle East tourism development and the Chinese Market among the activities of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during the 38th edition of the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR, January 17-21), the yearly kick-off for the world’s leading tourism meeting points.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

  World's largest party: New Year celebrations in Rio beaches attracted 2.4 million people

  

  Where was the best New Year party in the World? At Times Square New York in below zero temperature or on a sunny summer beach day in Rio De Janeiro with 2.4 million happy tourists and locals going wild. On Sunday, December 31st, 2.4 million people gathered on Copacabana’s beach to welcome 2018. According to Riotur, this is the largest audience ever registered in Copacabana’s New Year’s Eve celebration, considered one of the best in the world.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Holidays' scam: Britons encouraged to say they were sick to collect claims on return home

  

  Millions of Britons are being encouraged to say they were sick while on holiday, according to the Association of British Travel Agents. A poll carried out for ABTA suggests that 19% of all holidaymakers may have been approached by a claims management company on their return home.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 11:19 UTC

  Busiest air route in North America is Mexico City/Cancun with 3.7m pax

  

  A new study shows that Mexico City to Cancun is the busiest air route in North America. Almost 3.7 million passengers traveled the 1,294 km journey between Mexico City Juarez and Cancun in the twelve-month period between November 1, 2016 and October 31, 2017, putting it at the top of the study’s rankings. The average cost of a ticket was US$72.

• Friday, December 29th 2017 - 14:32 UTC

  Falkland Islands debates the landing fee for cruise visitors

  

  The Falkland Islands Environment Committee, held a lively debate on the cost of the landing fee for cruise visitors which is scheduled to be increased to £25 per passenger, and which was described as “the highest in the region” by the head of the Islands Tourist Board.

• 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.