Tourism

Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 07:16 UTC
Falklands Tourist Board presented the 2015 Tourism Awards, and the winners are...

Tony Mason, Chief Executive Officer of the Falkland Islands Tourist and H.E. The Governor of the Falkland Islands, Mr. Colin Roberts, presented the 2015 tourism awards on 1st April 2015. It was also a successful finale for CEO Mason who now has an even more ambitious task with the Falkland Islands Tourist Board in the United Kingdom.
Thursday, April 9th 2015 - 07:50 UTC
Jeremy Clarkson is back on BBC as guest host of “Have I got news for you”

$Clarkson was suspended by the BBC on 10 March following a “fracas” with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel in North Yorkshire.$

Jeremy Clarkson is set to make his first appearance on the BBC since losing his job as co-presenter on Top Gear. The controversial broadcaster will appear as the guest host of 'Have I Got News for You' on 24 April. Clarkson became notorious in Argentina for his 'provocative' Top Gear program using cars with plates (H982 FKL) that made reference to the Falklands war of 1982 triggering strong reactions.
Monday, March 30th 2015 - 10:36 UTC
Ushuaia expects 2014/15 cruise season to total over 100.000 visitors

Over 100.000 visitors will have landed in Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina by the end of the current 2014/2015 cruise season, anticipated for mid April, according to official stats from the Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute, InFueTur.
Monday, March 30th 2015 - 09:34 UTC
Carnival and associates to incorporate nine new cruise vessels by 2022

Carnival Corporation enters into strategic partnerships to add nine cruise ships to its fleet over a four-year period starting in 2019; shipbuilders Fincantieri and Meyer Werft to each build next-generation cruise ships for Carnival Corporation through two separate, long-term partnerships, reports Maritime Link.
Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:20 UTC
Cruise lines are preparing for the Cuban rush of US tourists

Although U.S. tourists are still technically banned from visiting the Caribbean country, one of the world's last remaining authoritarian regimes, the process of normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba has the cruise industry ready to pounce, according to Maritime Link.
Thursday, March 26th 2015 - 14:41 UTC
Falklands' main import trading partner is the UK with 87% of all goods

The United Kingdom is the main import trading partner of the Falkland Islands with 87% of all imported goods coming from the UK in 2012 (Customs and Immigration 2013) with the rest imported mostly from Chile and Uruguay, according to the latest report on the Falklands' “State of the Economy”.
Saturday, March 21st 2015 - 06:20 UTC
Argentine police discover 15 kilos of pure cocaine in the 'Splendour of the Seas'

Argentine customs officials seized cocaine worth more than one million dollars million from two crew members on a luxury cruise ship docked in Buenos Aires, authorities said. The suspects, both men, were identified only as a Croatian national and a Chilean traveling on an Australian passport.
Saturday, March 21st 2015 - 05:07 UTC
St Helena names South African airline preferred bidder for when airport opens next year

A South African airline operator has been named the favorite to provide an air service for St Helena when its first airport opens early in 2016. But Comair, which also operates budget flights as kulula.com, will only offer flights to Johannesburg in South Africa, despite strong calls for a direct service to Europe.
Saturday, March 14th 2015 - 10:30 UTC
Cruise season in Ushuaia with 71.000 visitors and 251 calls

Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego and considered the most southern city of the world, received over 70.000 cruise visitors and 251 vessel calls during this cruise season, which took off last September and was computed until the end of February, which also proved to be the most active month of austral summer.
Monday, March 9th 2015 - 23:32 UTC
St Elena's airport will receive its first airplane test landing next July

The very first airplane landing on St Helena’s new airport is due to take place in July, seven months before the target date for its completion. St Elena is situated in the middle of the Atlantic, and besides being a volcanic island is world famous since Napoleon was kept under arrest by the British until his death.