Tourism

• Thursday, August 4th 2016 - 22:09 UTC

  RMS St Helena schedule extended another year until airport is ready for commercial flights

  

  RMS St. Helena, one of the last Royal Mail Ships in the world is to continue serving her remote South Atlantic island namesake until 1 July 2017, the St Helena Government has announced. The RMS passenger and freight service will continue to operate between Cape Town, St Helena and Ascension Island with the extended schedule confirmed by the island's director of tourism.

• Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 08:38 UTC

  Olympics equestrian sports have to live with glanders scare in Rio

  

  Brazil's summer Olympics, scheduled to be opened in less than a week, have added another challenge to the long list of complaints and disease-scares, such as Zika, but this time the culprits are not mosquitoes but an alleged outbreak of glanders disease, a deadly equine respiratory condition. And this has surfaced when the world's top riders and their mounts prepare to compete in Rio de Janeiro events.

• Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 11:36 UTC

  Ushuaia plans to expand main port pier 251 meters and improve facilities

  

  Ushuaia, the world's most extreme south city and the gateway for Antarctica cruise tours is planning to upgrade its port facilities including the expansion of the main pier by 251 meters increasing the docking capacity for tourism vessels during the summer season.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:51 UTC

  Temer vetoes foreign 100% ownership of Brazilian airlines

  

  Brazil's interim President Michel Temer vetoed on Tuesday an article in a new law, which would allow foreign investors to take 100% ownership of Brazilian airlines, according to the official Gazette. The article is part of a law seeking to modify areas of the aviation sector, mainly in order to allow the state-owned airport infrastructure firm, Infraero, to restructure its debts.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2016 - 13:34 UTC

  Argentina planning tourist air tours of Antarctica beginning 2018

  

  Argentina plans to organize tourist air tours to Antarctica beginning 2018, with the government's airline, LADE, according to official sources from the Tourism and Defense ministries.

• Thursday, July 21st 2016 - 08:17 UTC

  Falklands: Le Boréal 2015 engine-room fire ignited by clogged fuel filter, says report

  

  French maritime authorities have released the engine room fire incident report of cruise Le Boreal on 17 November 2015, which forced the air evacuation of some 90 passengers and crew to the Falkland Islands, while the rest were transferred to her sister ship L'Áustral. According to the report the fire was due to a clogged fuel filter element, which was disassembled under pressure by a crewmember and thus started leaking fuel.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2016 - 05:37 UTC

  Brazil tightens security at airports ahead of the Olympic Games in the aftermath of Nice

  

  Stepped-up security screenings produced long lines for travelers at Brazil’s main airports on Monday in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France and weeks ahead of the Olympic Games scheduled to open next 5 August in Rio do Janeiro.

• Friday, July 15th 2016 - 04:13 UTC

  “We'll be back with Cristina and we'll return to Malvinas”, pledges Maradona in Ushuaia

  

  “We'll be back with Cristina, and we'll be back in Malvinas”, said Argentina's world football ex-star Diego Armando Maradona before leaving Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego where he spent mini vacations.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2016 - 01:57 UTC

  Downing Street legend welcomes Theresa and says good bye to the Camerons

  

  Britain's new leader Theresa May will move into her official residence at 10 Downing Street Wednesday as Prime Minister David Cameron moves out, but one member of his team is staying put: Larry the cat. The brown and white tabby is deemed to be a government worker and will continue to live at the famous address even after his boss packs his bags, officials said.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2016 - 01:31 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil situations take a toll on Uruguay's 2015/16 cruise season

  

  The number of vessel calls dropped 6.4% and passengers landed 4.1%, during the last 2015/2016 cruise season compared to 2041/2015, according to the final report from Uruguay's Tourism ministry. The number of passenger and crew landed in Montevideo and Punta del Este reached 319.000 having spent an estimate 11.1 million dollars.