Tourism

• Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Uruguay’s expects 200 cruise calls and 300.000 visitors

  

  Uruguay expects 200 cruise calls this 2010/2011 season totalling 300.000 visitors between passengers and crewmembers said the country’s Tourism and Sports minister Hector Lescano during the official launching of the cruise season.

• Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 23:49 UTC

  International visitors sustainedly flocking to the US: 40.2 million in eight months

  

  The United States Department of Commerce says the number of international visitors to the country is rising fast.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 04:58 UTC

  Tourism industry generates 9% of global GDP and 8% of world employment

  

  The travel and tourism industry is one of the largest and most dynamic industries in today’s global economy expected to generate about 9% of total GDP and provide for more than 235 million jobs in 2010 representing 8% of global employment.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 02:35 UTC

  New Zealand opens exciting cruise season and expects 140.000 passengers

  

  New Zealand has seen phenomenal cruise growth since 1995 and the 2010-2011 cruise season which started on 15 October with the Sapphire Princess, is forecast to be even larger than what the country has ever experienced.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 19:50 UTC

  Chile targets a million visitors to thermal hot springs by 2015

  

  A new business association promoting Chile’s thermal hot springs hopes to bump visits up 12% to 1 million people by 2015. Last year only 700,000 people visited Chile’s hot springs, which exist in all corners of this mountainous, volcano-rich country.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 19:05 UTC

  Chile promotes nudism-naturism tourism; holds regional conference in 2012

  

  The nudism and naturism movement in Chile will soon be in the international spotlight, as the country was recently named headquarters for the Latin American Nudism-Naturism Conference, scheduled for March 2012.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 18:44 UTC

  Korean vessel fire frustrates Uruguay’s cruise season official launching

  

  A fire which broke out in a Korean flagged fishing vessel docked in the port of Montevideo and which was still burning early Monday forced the suspension of the official launching of Uruguay’s cruise season.

• Friday, November 12th 2010 - 17:41 UTC

  UK holidaymakers moving out of Euro zone to Eastern Europe

  

  It wasn't just the rain-swept, cold day in London that was sending a chill wind down the back of tourism bosses from Western Europe. As heads of the global travel industry met for their annual gathering at the giant World Travel Market (WTM) 2010 event, the damage being caused by the continuing high value of the Euro was the dark cloud hanging over the representatives from Euro zone nations.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 14:36 UTC

  Emergency order to inspect all A380 engines; Qantas grounds its six Super-jumbos

  

  European Union’s air safety regulator has issued an emergency order to inspect all Super-jumbo Airbus A380 passenger jet engines after a Rolls-Royce turbine blew up on a Qantas flight last week.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 00:17 UTC

  Stranded cruise towed to San Diego; Navy choppers supply food to 4.500 pax

  

  Cruise ship “Carnival Splendour” carrying 4,500 passengers and crew members is being slowly towed towards San Diego, California after an engine room fire disabled its ability to move on its own.