Tourism

• Thursday, October 28th 2010 - 05:01 UTC

  LAN Airlines completes acquisition of second largest operator in Colombia

  

  Chile’s flag carrier, LAN Airlines announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire 98.942% of the outstanding shares of Colombian airline AIRES, through the purchase of its parent entities.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 20:50 UTC

  Uruguay’s official cruise season begins November 13; 197 calls anticipated

  

  Next November 13 the Holland America Line “Veendam” will be calling in Montevideo with 1.400 passengers signalling the official beginning of the cruise season in Uruguay expected to extend until April 4.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:41 UTC

  First cruise of the season, National Geographic Explorer calls in Buenos Aires

  

  Buenos Aires received on Friday the first cruise call of the season with the arrival of the “National Geographic Explorer” and 139 visitors.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:07 UTC

  Chile promotes eco-tourism in bio-diverse Patagonia

  

  Chile's Patagonian region is home to one of the most incredibly vast expanses of virtually untouched ecosystems on the planet. Within this ecological haven lies a region known as the Aisén Region, a sprawling epicentre of glacial waterways and biodiversity, soon to be subject of a new ecotourism operation run by the Centre for Ecosystem Research in Patagonia (CIEP).

• Tuesday, October 19th 2010 - 04:07 UTC

  Falkland Islands, new destination for successful UK online Travel in Depth

  

  A United Kingdom independent online travel company specializing in wilderness adventures is expecting at least a 10% rise in sales in the next year after adding extra destinations to its portfolio, including the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 15th 2010 - 22:09 UTC

  Cruise tourist numbers revised up by one third

  

  TOURISM in the Falklands is looking up, with visitor projections far higher than anticipated just three months ago.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:51 UTC

  “Queen Elizabeth” maiden voyage fully booked less in less than 30 minutes

  

  The Queen has officially named Cunard's new Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in the port of Southampton. The ship will leave on her maiden voyage to the Canary Islands on Tuesday - a trip that was fully booked less than 30 minutes after going on sale.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:49 UTC

  Netherlands Antilles disappear, become autonomous within the Kingdom

  

  Dutch Caribbean dependency the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist with a change of the five islands' constitutional status. Curacao and St Maarten have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, joining Aruba, which gained the status in 1986.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 05:13 UTC

  Americas loosing to Asia in the recovery of the European tourist market

  

  With a 14th growth in tourist arrivals in the first half of the year Asia doubled the Americas (7.3%) in the industry’s rhythm of recovery and became the region’s main competitor for the European market, according to the latest data from the World Tourism Organization.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 02:59 UTC

  Indigenous group protests blamed for dip in tourism on Chile’s Easter Islands

  

  Due to the on-going land disputes by indigenous Rapa Nui groups, tourism activity has decreased on Chile’s Easter Island, said Edgar Hereveri, vice president of the island’s chamber of tourism.