Tourism

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  IAATO's new guidance to enhance environmentally responsible travel to Antarctica

  

  IAATO, which celebrates its 30th year in 2021, has been carefully monitoring, analyzing, and reporting Antarctic tourism trends since its inception as part of its commitment to the effective self-management of guest activities.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 07:21 UTC

  Massive spill of raw sewage at Mexico's sun-kissed beach of Acapulco

  

  The coastline of famed Mexican beach resort Acapulco was sullied late last week by a large discharge of raw sewage, the ugly scene captured in a viral video, which has prompted local authorities to promise an investigation and to fix its broken drainage system.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 18:04 UTC

  Uruguay in the list of 14 countries to which the Europe Union opens its borders

  

  The European Union agreed on Tuesday to reopen its borders to 14 countries excluding the virus-stricken US, as the pandemic accelerated globally with more than 505,000 deaths worldwide. Of Latin America the only country included in the list is Uruguay.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  Norwegian Air Shuttle cancels purchase of 97 jets from Boeing

  

  Norwegian Air Shuttle has notified Boeing that it is terminating purchase agreements for all 97 of its remaining jets on order with the US planemaker. The decision covers 92 of Boeing's 737 Max planes, five 787 Dreamliners and a related maintenance pact, Norwegian said in a statement on Monday.

• Sunday, June 28th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  EU re-opens borders to visitors from 18 countries,US and Russia not on the list

  

  According to diplomatic sources, EU Committee of Permanent Representatives yesterday approved a draft list of 18 countries, to whom the European Union’s borders will start re-opening on July 1.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:11 UTC

  Latam rescheduling and scaling back domestic and international flights

  

  South American carrier LATAM has suspended ticket sales on 23 routes across its network, including several domestic routes within Chile and international routes from Brazil, Chile and Peru. At the same time, the Santiago-headquartered carrier has made the bold move to suspend international destinations from five Argentinean destinations to the carrier’s hubs in Santiago, Lima and Sao Paulo until 2021.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Falklands' leisure tourist arrivals increase 7% and expenditure 12% in 2019/20

  

  Leisure tourist arrival in the Falkland Islands reached 1,650, during the 2019-2020 season, up almost 7% on the previous year reports Steph Middleton, Executive Director, Falkland Islands Tourist Board.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:08 UTC

  Bournemouth authorities 'appalled' after thousands flocked to the beach

  

  An English seaside resort declared a major incident Thursday after thousands of people flocked to the beach on the hottest day of the year so far, despite the threat of coronavirus.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands Airbridge, strict measures for travellers; no Latam flights for at least the next two months

  

  The Falkland Islands currently have an only air link which is the air bridge with the United Kingdom twice a week, since the commercial flights from Chile and Brazil managed by Latam, have been suspended at least until the end of July.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 05:28 UTC

  New members welcomed into responsible tourism fold at 2020 IAATO online annual meeting

  

  Two Operators, five provisional operators, and five new Associates have been welcomed into the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) at the responsible tourism organization's first online annual meeting.