Tourism

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 22:56 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth will name cruise vessel Britannia in Southampton

  

  P&O Cruises has confirmed that Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, will name the new P&O Cruises vessel Britannia at Ocean Terminal, Southampton, SO14 3QN, on Tuesday March 10, 2015.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 05:45 UTC

  London Heathrow and Star Alliance win the World's Airport of the Year award

  

  London Heathrow and Star Alliance have won the World’s Airport of the Year at Air Transport World’s (ATW) 41st Annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards, honored jointly for their collaborative work on the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 11:55 UTC

  Falkland Islands return as leading option for Ramblers Worldwide Holidays

  

  Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has added more options in South America with the reinstatement of a Falkland Islands and Chile itinerary and the return of Bolivia to the program. The first sold-out trip to the Falkland Islands has just returned and another, which is almost full, will run from November 5, leading in at £4,220pp.

• Thursday, February 26th 2015 - 04:14 UTC

  Brazilian lawmaker wants closer ties with 'Falklands' and even considers 'a friendship forum'

  

  Brazilian federal Deputy for the southern state of Santa Catarina Celso Maldaner who last week visited the Falkland Islands said he wants to 'influence and push' for a commercial opening of Brazil with the Islands, since he believes there is great potential for making business particularly regarding fisheries and tourism.

• Friday, February 20th 2015 - 04:37 UTC

  IAATO tests protocols in Antarctic Search and Rescue exercise with RCCNZ

  

  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and two member operators, Oceanwide Expeditions and Heritage Expeditions, took part in a live Search and Rescue (SAR) Exercise in collaboration with Maritime New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) on Feb. 12.

• Tuesday, February 17th 2015 - 06:00 UTC

  Caribbean is anticipating 5% increase in tourist arrivals after a record 2014

  

  The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization, CTO, is projecting a 5% increase in tourist arrivals in 2015 after the region recorded its best year ever in 2014. CTO Secretary General Hugh Riley told reporters a record 26.3 million visitors came to the Caribbean last year, spending a record US$29.2 billion.

• Saturday, February 14th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Cruise industry leaders set course for annual global event March16/19

  

  Cruise Shipping Miami's State of the Industry session, which sets the course of the cruise industry's premier annual event is scheduled for March 16/19 at the Miami Beach Convention Center and will feature the chief executives of the world's largest cruise companies in a wide-ranging discussion of the health and future of the global cruise business.

• Friday, February 13th 2015 - 13:56 UTC

  A canine brigade in Punta Arenas helps to speed the landing of 4.000 visitors

  

  How do you manage to make the mandatory phyto-sanitary controls when 4.000 visitors come ashore on the same day virtually at the same time, and the port is not a major terminal. Particularly when the country is a main producer of fruit and other agriculture goods and must act with the utmost jealousy to ensure its privileged position as a world leading exporter.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

  Costa Concordia cruise captain sentenced to 16 years in prison for 2012 shipwreck

  

  The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the 2012 shipwreck, which killed 32 people off the Tuscan holiday island of Giglio. Francesco Schettino was commanding the vessel, a floating hotel as long as three football pitches, when it hit rocks off the island, tearing a hole in its side.

• Saturday, February 7th 2015 - 05:41 UTC

  Grandeur of the Seas struck by Norovirus cuts shorts Caribbean cruise

  

  A ten-night sailing of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship was cut short by one day after nearly 10% of passengers were struck by norovirus. An unrelated medical emergency expedited the need for the ship to dock early as bad weather made an at-sea transfer impossible.