Tourism

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 13:32 UTC

  Six months facelift for Rio’s iconic Christ Redeemer statue

  

  The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the seven new wonders of the world which receives annually 1.8 million visitors annually starting this week will undergo a facelift, according to Brazilian Catholic church sources.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 05:32 UTC

  Air Seychelles begins operating Brize Norton-Falklands Air Bridge

  

  Seychelles President James Michel has welcomed the announcement by Air Seychelles that it has begun operations to the Falkland Islands as part of a contract with the UK Ministry of Defense.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 05:12 UTC

  Falklands receives Queen’s baton rally 2010 Delhi in mid February

  

  On Monday 15th February, the Queen’s Baton 2010 Delhi will arrive in the Falkland Islands from Ascension Island. The baton is currently in Botswana and will arrive via Tristan da Cuhna and St Helena the 29th of its 71 Commonwealth destinations.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2010 - 04:13 UTC

  Falkland Islands Tourist Board Facebook page reaches 1,600 fans

  

  The official Facebook page for the Falkland Islands has attracted over 1,600 fans in its first five months.

• Saturday, January 23rd 2010 - 15:10 UTC

  Commercial air link Gibraltar/Barcelona begins end of March

  

  Andalus Lineas Aereas will renew its service from Gibraltar to Barcelona as from the end of March, exactly six months after it pulled the plug on the route because of low passenger numbers, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• 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.