Tourism

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 21:13 UTC

  British Airways says three-day strike has cots £ 21 million

  

  British Airways has said Unite's three-day strike will have cost it £21 million under its “current best estimate”. BA also said that contingency plans to cope with the strike had been “very successful” and that results for the year to March 31 would be “broadly unchanged”.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 08:51 UTC

  British Airways battles cabin crew strike

  

  British Airways said it would fly more than 60 percent of passengers with flights booked for this weekend despite a three-day cabin crew strike that risks hurting the Labor government weeks before an election.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 06:08 UTC

  Buenos Aires celebrates “excellent” 2009/10 cruise season with 11% more visitors

  

  With just a few days for the official end of the 2009/2010 cruise season Buenos Aires City is celebrating an increase in the number of ship calls and visitors, according to the preliminary results of a poll contracted by the City’s Tourism Board.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 12:41 UTC

  New General Manager at Falkland Islands Tourist Board

  

  New Zealander Paul Trowell has been appointed as the new General Manager of the Falkland Islands Tourist Board and will take up his duties on 5 April 2010.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2010 - 16:42 UTC

  In spite of bad weather 16 cruise vessels visit South Georgia during February

  

  For South Georgia February was one of the busiest months in the 2009/10 tourist season with sixteen cruise ships and six yachts visiting the island.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:45 UTC

  Spanish ports handled 6 million cruise passengers in 2009, a 3% expansion

  

  Spanish ports reported growth in cruise passenger numbers last year, despite the impact of the economic downturn on the country’s tourism sector. The country’s state-owned ports handled just over 6 million passengers last year, a 3% increase over figures for 2008.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:36 UTC

  Gibraltar participates in leading Cruise convention in Miami

  

  The Port of Gibraltar is participating of the 26th edition of the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention, which opened at the Miami Beach Convention Centre in Florida. The international exhibition and conference is recognised as the leading cruise industry event.

• Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 00:41 UTC

  Norovirus again attacks “Vision of the Seas” cruise in Brazil

  

  Royal Caribbean’s cruise vessel “Vision of the Seas” which last week was struck with an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness has again suffered a similar bout while sailing along the Atlantic coast of South America, according to a Brazilian health officials.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 19:24 UTC

  China plans to buy 218 commercial aircraft this year

  

  China mainland carriers plan to order as many as 218 commercial aircraft this year in order to cope with an expected surge in demand for air travel in the coming years, state media reported this week.

• Thursday, March 4th 2010 - 21:10 UTC

  Cruise along Brazilian coast suffers alleged massive food poisoning

  

  Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas was liberated and allowed to continue with the cruise after Brazilian sanitary officials imposed a 24 hours quarantine following a massive outbreak of what is believed to be food poisoning.