Tourism

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  Falklands Ultra Launches Inaugural Falkland Islands Ultramarathon in April 2020

  

  The Falklands Ultra is a single-stage ultra-marathon across the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It will become an annual event and the inaugural event will be held in April 2020.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  Chinese tourists did 150 million outbound trips in 2018

  

  A total of 149.72 million outbound trips were made by Chinese tourists in 2018, up 14.7% from the previous year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced, Trend reported citing Xinhua.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 19:04 UTC

  WTTC: Travel & Tourism to drive post-Brexit recovery

  

  Travel & Tourism can be a major growth sector for the UK after Brexit, according to new research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands coordinates distressed yacht Paradise rescue; injured crew member will be helicoptered to Stanley

  

  Early morning Thursday a helicopter from the Falkland Islands will be lifting ashore from the search and survey vessel Seabed Constructor, a Luxembourg national who suffered head injuries during the capsizing of the French flagged yacht Paradise in the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Brits love holidays in Spain: 14 million holidayed in sunny Spain in 2017

  

  Brits love a holiday and whether we’re looking for a beach getaway or a city break, the next flight is often not too far away. But which long haul and short haul destination is the UK’s favorite? How long do we stay and how much do we spend? Newly collected travel data reveals UK’s favorite holiday destinations.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Tourism contributed €1 in every €7, in the Spanish economy during 2018

  

  The Travel & Tourism sector contributed €1 in every €7, in the Spanish economy last year demonstrating the importance of the sector to the country. This comes in a year in which Spain overtook the USA as the country with the second largest number of international visitor arrivals in a year (behind France).

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Cruise industry catering specifically for Chinese market with the delivery of “Costa Venezia”

  

  The Italian brand of Carnival Corporation & plc, this week officially took delivery of Costa Venezia, its first ship designed specifically to offer the best of Italy to the Chinese market. Costa Venezia is part of an expansion plan that includes a total of seven ships being delivered to the Costa Group by 2023.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

  Argentina, Chile and Uruguay plan joint presentation at Seatrade Cruise Global 2019

  

  Argentina, Chile and Uruguay will be making a joint presentation at the next Seatrade Cruise Global 2019, in Miami, as part of a joint strategy to attract more cruise tourism to the region. The announcement was done by Uruguay's ports authority, Alberto Diaz who hosted a meeting of tourism and sea terminals representatives from the three countries.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  (VIDEO) Terrifying moments as British Airways plane was rocked by turbulence on approaching Gibraltar

  

  Shocking footage has emerged of the terrifying moment that a British Airways plane was buffeted by turbulence as it approached the runway in Gibraltar, forcing pilots to abort and divert to Málaga instead.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 19:45 UTC

  MSC Orchestra collides with MSC Poesia at Buenos Aires Port

  

  Two MSC cruise ships collided at the Port of Buenos Aires. One of the ships somehow lost control and hit another causing some damage. It was all caught on video.