Tourism

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentina’s hotel building boom: “symbol of climb back from global downturn”

  

  Argentina’s hotel building boom can be held up as a symbol of South America’s climb back from the global downturn. The country has 15 projects in the development pipeline representing 1,700 rooms, according to STR Global. Of those 1,700 rooms, 68.9% or 1,172 are currently in the in-construction phase of development.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 07:51 UTC

  Air France To Increase Flights Between France and Chile

  

  Air France announced that beginning September 6, it will add more flights between Paris and Santiago. The airline currently offers five flights per week, but by September plans to increase that number to seven.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2010 - 23:35 UTC

  Increasingly positive outlook for Falklands cruise season

  

  With only two months to go before the first cruise ship arrives in the Falkland Islands for the 2010/11 season the situation is looking increasingly positive.
  An initial prediction of 58 visits to Stanley may this season in reality be closer to 75 (according to the latest schedule) while the smaller expedition ships are planning almost 100 outer island visits.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 07:14 UTC

  Uruguay: More tourists make Montevideo the main attraction in the first half of 2010

  

  The number of tourists visiting Uruguay during the first half of the year over the same period in 2009, increased 5.5% totalling 1.266.898, while revenue jumped 18.7% in US dollars (878.6 million USD), according to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of Tourism.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2010 - 03:34 UTC

  Balmoral to retrace in April 2012 centenary of the Titanic route

  

  Relatives of those who perished on the Titanic will be boarding a cruise to mark the 2012 centenary of the sinking of the vessel. A special ceremony will take place on board the cruise ship Balmoral 100 years on from the exact time the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of April 15 1912.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 09:17 UTC

  Tourists arriving in Argentina during June increased 29.7% over a year ago

  

  The number of tourists that arrived in Argentina during June increased 29.7% compared to the same month last year, according to a government report.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 09:09 UTC

  “Miracle” in Colombia: Lightning downs aircraft: one dead, 114 injured

  

  A Boeing 737-700 from Colombian air carrier Aires operating as Flight 8250 from Bogota Eldorado Airport to San Andres Island in the Caribbean split into three pieces on landing after being struck by lightning, according to statements from Colombia’s national police.

• Saturday, August 14th 2010 - 02:47 UTC

  Merger of Chile’s Lan and Brazil’s Tam to become the region’s largest carrier

  

  Two major South American airlines announced on Friday plans to merge and create the biggest carrier in the region. Brazil's largest airline TAM Linhas Aereas will be teaming up with Chile's LAN.

• Friday, August 13th 2010 - 03:16 UTC

  Cruise company cautions ports must prepare for ships with over 5.400 passengers

  

  Royal Caribbean announced that during the coming tourist season several of its ships will make 27 stops between Montevideo and Punta del Este in Uruguay. The announcement was made by Michael Ronan, Royal Caribbean's Vice President of Government Relations, Caribbean, Latin America & Asia, in a meeting with different Uruguayan authorities held in Montevideo.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 18:00 UTC

  Spain top of the list for European pensioners seeking to relocate

  

  Sun, sea and sangria come top of the list for European pensioners seeking to relocate for retirement, a new survey showed this week. The survey by employee management consulting firm Aon Corporation found that one in four Europeans wishing to retire abroad would like to move to Spain, followed by France, Italy and the United States.