Tourism

• Friday, September 18th 2009 - 23:36 UTC

  South Georgia expects 15% drop in cruise visitors this summer

  

  Early indications are that 63 tour ships are due to visit South Georgia in the coming season, seven visits down on last season, according to the South Georgia Newsletter, August edition.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2009 - 08:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires optimistic about the coming cruise season

  

  In spite of the global slowdown, the cruise industry in South America seems to be steaming ahead according to the latest estimates from Buenos Aires Port, which for the coming 2009/2010 season is expecting 143 calls.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2009 - 07:32 UTC

  Gibraltar promotes cruise tourism at the Seatrade Europe Conference

  

  The Gibraltar Port Authority is participating in the Seatrade Europe Conference and Exhibition, recognised as Europe’s leading meeting place for the cruise, ferry, river-cruise and super-yacht industries.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2009 - 02:51 UTC

  Re-enactment of Darwin’s expedition arrives in Montevideo late October

  

  A re-enactment of Charles Darwin global scientific expedition in the eighteen hundreds was launched on September first from Plymouth, England and should be calling in Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of October.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 08:21 UTC

  Daily flights Buenos Aires/Ushuaia starting October

  

  LAN Chile’s Argentine subsidiary announced an increase in flights from Buenos Aires to the Argentine port city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to meet peak season demand for leisure cruises to Antarctica.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 09:24 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro and Buenos Aires among world’s ten happiest cities

  

  Brazil’s Rio do Janeiro and Argentina’s Buenos Aires open and close the Forbes list of the world’s ten happiest cities according to a recent survey conducted by policy advisor Simon Anholt and market researcher GfK Custom Research North America.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 09:08 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro will have Latinamerica’s largest marine aquarium

  

  Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro city will build the largest marine aquarium in Latinamerica, municipal authorities announced on Wednesday. To be named AquaRio, the aquarium is part of a plan to revitalize the city.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2009 - 07:35 UTC

  IATA: air transport sector a “disaster”; airlines set to loose 9 billion USD

  

  ”The global situation of the air transport sector is a disaster” said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s Director General and CEO in a speech to JURCA, the association of airlines operating in Argentina.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 00:25 UTC

  Between 1.600 and 1.700 vessels cross the Magellan Strait annually

  

  An estimated 1.600 to 1.700 vessels cross the strategic Magellan Strait annually according to the Chilean Navy that last week celebrated the 161th anniversary of its patrolling task along the country’s coastline of almost 6.500 kilometres.

• Monday, August 31st 2009 - 08:00 UTC

  Third “expedition cruise” vessel for Australis from Punta Arenas

  

  The Chilean cruise company Cruceros Australis which operates from Punta Arenas is having a third vessel built in Valdivia which should be operational for the 2010/2011 season, according to Branco Ivelic, manager of Cruise Operations.