Tourism

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 06:00 UTC

  Britain to build airport in mid Atlantic St Helena Island; vital link with Falklands

  

  Britain announced Thursday it had agreed to build an airport on the mid Atlantic island of Saint Helena, which is expected to become a vital link for the Falkland Islands air communications.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2010 - 09:47 UTC

  Travel conference to promote gay tourism takes off in Buenos Aires

  

  A marketing and travel conference aimed at promoting tourism for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community was opened Wednesday by Argentina’s new tourism minister Enrique Meyer.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Spain’s 2010 tourism receipts down for the third year running

  

  For the third year running Spain tourism receipts will fall in 2010 according to the Exeltur, the Alliance for Tourism Excellence which brings together the country’s industry. The latest data indicates that real receipts this year will drop an estimated 2.4% to 37.2 billion US dollars following a 10.6% fall in 2009 and 1% in 2008.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2010 - 03:51 UTC

  Uruguay overall tourism champion in Latinamerica, says Latin Tourism Index

  

  Uruguay is overall champion of tourism in Latin America, according to the Latin Tourism Index from Latin Business Chronicle

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 02:37 UTC

  Argentina expects more than five million foreign tourists in 2010

  

  Argentina is expecting over five million tourists this year, a historic record which represents a 15.5% increase over 2009, said Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer.

• Thursday, July 15th 2010 - 06:23 UTC

  Recession-hit Britons cut back on overseas travel in 2009

  

  Recession-hit Britons cut back on overseas travel last year, with business trips down by almost a quarter, the UK Office for National Statistics announced this week.

• Friday, July 2nd 2010 - 15:14 UTC

  Falklands prepares for the coming 2010/11 cruise season

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board has had the first indication from cruise companies on potential numbers of cruise ships to visit Stanley in 2010/11.

• Friday, July 2nd 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentina upgrades Tourism to Ministry given its growing economic contribution

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner led the swearing-in ceremony of Enrique Meyer as Minister of the newly created Ministry of Tourism. Meyer was Secretary of Tourism but this week the post was upgraded to Ministry.

• Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 00:20 UTC

  Positive outlook for tourism in 2010 according to UN World Barometer

  

  International tourist arrivals grew by 7% in the first four months of 2010 according to the latest issue of the United Nations World Tourism Organization World Tourism Barometer.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:30 UTC

  Hobart to host Antarctic tourism, IAATO conference in 2011

  

  Hobart, Tasmania has won the right to host a prestigious Antarctic tourism conference, again proving its unique status as Australia’s “Antarctic Capital”.