Tourism

• Friday, January 22nd 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Gibraltar government and private operators at Tourism Fair in Madrid

  

  The Gibraltar Tourist Board is currently exhibiting at the 30th edition of FITUR (Feria Internacional de Turismo) in Madrid which officially opened this week. It is being held over four days until 24 January. The exhibition is targeted at tourism industry professionals for the first three days, and then opens to the general public for the final two days, at the weekend, and is always very well supported.

• Thursday, January 21st 2010 - 12:23 UTC

  Uruguay had a record tourism industry year in 2009

  

  Uruguay had a very good tourist year in 2009 when the number of visitors climbed to 2.1 million and income reached 1.5 billion US dollars which is considered a record, according to Tourism Minister Hector Lescano.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 12:41 UTC

  Cruise industry joins relief effort by continuing to visit unaffected Haiti resorts

  

  Luxury cruise ships will continue to dock as normal at an idyllic resort in northern Haiti despite the deadly earthquake a week ago that devastated the Caribbean nation, a cruise company said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  E-Clear-Flyglobespan collapse: £35 million “no longer there”

  

  E-Clear, the company responsible for online ticket sales at the failed Scottish airline Flyglobespan, has been placed into administration. Flyglobespan also had the UK Ministry of Defence contract for the air bridge between Brize Norton and MPA in the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 10:47 UTC

  Fourteen cruise vessels call in South Georgia during December

  

  Fourteen cruise ships visited South Georgia Island during December, eight of which visited during the Christmas week from the 23rd to the 29th December, according to the latest release from South Georgia’s News and Events.

• Monday, January 18th 2010 - 13:33 UTC

  Former world champion Carlos Sainz claims first Dakar rally in Buenos Aires

  

  Spain’s Carlos Sainz claimed his first Dakar Rally victory after finishing second in the 14th and final stage which ended Sunday in the Argentine capital. The former world rally champion finished the race 2min 12sec ahead of Volkswagen team-mate Nasser al-Attiyah, who won the leg from San Rafael to Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, January 12th 2010 - 17:26 UTC

  International Jazz Festival, musical highlight of Punta del Este

  

  By David P. Michaels on location in Uruguay (*)
  International celebrities visiting the Latin American “jet-set” resort of Punta del Este in Uruguay come and go with the fashions. However one of the permanent attractions of the Punta del Este season is the “must see” International Jazz Festival.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 17:10 UTC

  Conflicting views about Chilean Patagonia tourism prospects for this season

  

  Magallanes region in the extreme south of Chile received in the twelve months of 2009 an estimated 600.000 tourists which is almost the same number than in 2008, according to primary data from Chile’s Tourism Office, Sernatur.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 16:47 UTC

  Puerto Madryn cruise industry faces bleak future

  

  Puerto Madryn in Argentine Patagonia expects a considerable fall in the number of cruise calls following Norwegian Cruise Lines decision to stop operating in the Valparaíso/Buenos Aires tour in the next 2010/2011 season.

• Thursday, January 7th 2010 - 16:38 UTC

  All luxury cruise ship suffers accident in Antarctic Peninsula

  

  One of the most elegant expedition vessels operating in Antarctica, the Clelia II, has been withdrawn from service during January for repairs following an accident that occurred over Christmas week but is only now coming to light.