Tourism

• Wednesday, April 20th 2011 - 05:01 UTC

  Mexican cruise operator takes off with full evacuation of ‘Ocean Star Pacific’

  

  The 1050 passenger MV ‘Ocean Star Pacific’ was stranded six miles off the Mexican coast at Huatulco by a generator fire, forcing the evacuation of 522 passengers and 226 crew members on Saturday.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2011 - 04:44 UTC

  Uruguay’s booming tourism industry needs “a harbour for cruise vessels”

  

  Uruguay is seriously considering the construction of a harbour for the cruise industry and admits infrastructure is already lacking in many areas for the exponential growth of the tourism industry, which in 2011 could be reaching the targets set out for the five year period 2010/2014.

• Saturday, April 16th 2011 - 09:48 UTC

  February tourist arrivals in Argentina increased 9.3% over a year ago

  

  The amount of tourists that arrived in Argentina during February increased 9.3% compared to the same month of 2010 and totalled 203,766 people, according to a government report.

• Saturday, April 9th 2011 - 00:13 UTC

  Puerto Williams poised to become Chile’s Antarctica travel hub

  

  Chile and the world’s southernmost town, Puerto Williams, is to open up to mass tourism under a new investment program approved by the government.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:58 UTC

  Five cruise vessels call in South Georgia during March

  

  The South Georgia tourist season is drawing to a close with just one cruise ship left to visit in early April, according to the latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:17 UTC

  Record number of tourists visit Chile in first quarter; top of the list Argentines

  

  The number of foreign tourists visiting Chile rose 9.2% during the first quarter of 2011 in relation to the same period last year, according to Tourism Secretary Jacqueline Plass. A record-breaking 1,043, 042 tourists entered Chile between January and March, at the height of the summer tourism season.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 04:36 UTC

  Parts of Air France aircraft lost in 2009 found on seabed of the Atlantic

  

  France has discovered what appears to be part of an Air France aircraft that crashed in the Atlantic almost two years ago killing all 228 people on board, accident investigators said.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Number of Chileans travelling abroad by air in summer doubled in ten years

  

  The number of Chileans choosing to travel abroad by air in the summer months has increased by 17% from last year, and is double the number who travelled in 2001.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 00:22 UTC

  Gibraltar expects 350.000 cruise visitors; opposition says 2010 was “the worst year”

  

  Gibraltar expects to receive approximately 350.000 cruise visitors during the current 2011 season, announced Deputy Chief Minister Joe Holliday during the reception for the inaugural call to the Rock of MSC Poesia.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:37 UTC

  Montevideo received almost a million tourists in 2010

  

  Uruguay received 2.4 million tourists during 2010, 34% of which the capital Montevideo and if the cruise visitors are added the final number jumps to 930.000, according to Luis Polakof, head of the city’s Economic Development Department.