Tourism

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  Antarctica 2010/11 visitors totalled 33.824, down 8.3%, says IAATO

  

  With the formal end of the tourism season in the Antarctic, the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) has released its final numbers for 2010-11. The total number of visitors to the region traveling with IAATO member-operators was 33,824.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 11:22 UTC

  Ahead of major international events, Brazil Tourism Board names new president

  

  The Brazil Tourism Board (Embratur) named Flavio Dino, a former federal congressman, as its new president, succeeding Mário Moysés.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 06:39 UTC

  Beware winter travellers: Chile’s airline overbooking “is permitted and habitual practice”

  

  If you’re planning to take a flight around Chile this winter, you may want to get to the airport early. Otherwise, you may discover that the airline overbooked your flight and there are no seats left.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:48 UTC

  British Airways: ‘World’s favourite airline’ grows in South America

  

  Over sixty five years ago, British South American Airways (BSAA) began flying to South America. The flights, which began in March 1946, were via Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Rio de Janiero and Montevideo, before landing in Buenos Aires, 35 hours later. The aircraft: an Avro Lancastrian. How times have changed.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:49 UTC

  First aircraft lands in Bariloche over a month after the Puyehue volcano eruption

  

  Over a month after the eruption of the Caulle-Puyehue volcano in Chile, a first flight landed in the airport of Argentina’s ski resort Bariloche. The chartered flight arrived from Sao Paulo with 120 Brazilian tourists.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 07:57 UTC

  Peru celebrates “100 years of Machu Picchu in the world”

  

  Peru is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, one of the seven new wonders of the world which sits high in the mountains at an altitude of 2.430 meters of difficult access.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 06:43 UTC

  Volcanic ash again cancels hundreds of flights in the Southern Cone

  

  Clouds of ash spewing from Chile's Puyehue volcano again grounded flights at airports in Uruguay and Argentina, where a major football tournament is being held. Scores of local and international flights were delayed or cancelled in and out of Buenos Aires, regional airport authority Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 said on its website on Friday.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:25 UTC

  Falkland Islands: 64,000 visitors this year predicts Tourist Board

  

  VISITOR arrivals in 2011 including inbound overnight tourists, cruise passengers and domestic tourists are expected to total almost 64,000, spending £6.85 million, according to the Falkland Islands Tourist Board forecast for the first quarter of 2011.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 15:05 UTC

  Punta Arenas fans charter DAP plane to support Chile in match against Uruguay

  

  Early Friday morning a DAP aircraft with over fifty passengers left Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, on a chartered flight for Santiago and then Mendoza, Argentina to be present at this evening’s Chile-Uruguay match for the Copa America.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 09:54 UTC

  Trump opens 70-story luxury hotel in Panama, the tallest building in Latin America

  

  Untied States billionaire Donald Trump marked his entry into Latin American real estate Wednesday with the opening in the capital of Panama of his 70-story luxury resort, the tallest building in Latin America.