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0.68 - Argentina 3.15 - Bolivia
7.67 - Brasil 1.78 - Chile 507.39
- Colombia 1,840 - México
10.50 Paraguay 4,700 - Perú
2.993 - Uruguay 21.40 - Venezuela
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| Hotel chain in
expansion |
| The hotel
chain Amerian announced the
opening of four establishments
during the next two years. The
first will be completed in June
2008 in Puerto Iguazu. It will
be a hotel which will require
an investment of US$ 10 million.
For the second semester of 2009,
the opening of hotels in Santa
Rosa (La Pampa), Neuquen and
Termas of Rio Hondo is expected. |
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| Trump chose Punta
del Este |
| Donald Trump
chose Punta del Este for his
first real estate venture in
South America. This project
implies an investment of US$
70 million and will consist
of three 17-storey towers located
between the Brava and Mansa
beaches. |
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| Signs an air agreement
with Mexico |
| The Foreign
Affairs Ministers of Paraguay
and Mexico signed a bilateral
air transport agreement which
aims at promoting cooperation
and exchange in the commercial
aviation field. |
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| Varig will fly
to Mexico and Spain |
| The airline
hopes to arrive in Spain, Mexico
and Uruguay in January, after
resuming its operations to Chile
with a daily flight from Sao
Paulo to Santiago. |
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| Open Sky agreement
with Dominican Republic |
Chile and the
Dominican Republic signed an
open sky agreement that will
allow promoting the traffic
of passengers between both countries.
Both parties agreed to open
all the air operations without
limitations of air traffic rights
between both and third countries.
There will be no limitations
in the number of frequencies,
or the locations to be operated,
and there will be ample rights
to transport as much cargo as
passengers between both countries.
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| Sky Airline direct
to Iguazu |
| As from January
19th, Sky Airline will fly to
the Iguazu Falls and will offer
an All Inclusive program. There
will be weekly departures including
7 night accommodation in Foz Iguazu,
with breakfast, lunch and dinners,
travel assistance coverage, transport
from the airport and excursions.
The flight will depart from Iquique,
with destination to the Puerto
Iguazu Airport, Argentina. The
travelers from Antofagasta and
Calama will connect directly with
this flight, without needing to
disembark in Santiago for the
international connection. |
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| LAB about to renew
its operating license |
LAB now only
requires applying for a technical
inspection to obtain the renewal
of its operative license. The
airline complied with all the
necessary requirements to obtain
the license for another five
years, only having pending the
application for the technical
inspection of its facilities,
aircraft and flight personnel,
a necessary requirement for
renewing operations. |
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| Amazons implement
tourist circuit of the falls |
Next year,
the Regional Direction of Foreign
Commerce and Tourism intends
to implement a tourist circuit
which will only include the
beautiful falls located in this
department. The Tourism regional
director stated that the circuit
would include the Gocta, Churuja,
Chinata, Yumbilla, Corontachaca
falls, among others. |
| Facilities for
hotels |
| Congress approved
a directive whereby special measures
would be adopted in 2008 to facilitate
the expedition of building, extension
or restructuring licenses of accommodation
establishments, qualified as four
or five star hotels, or that expect
to acquire those categories. This
initiative is aimed at promoting
tourism in the country. |
| Hotel chains from
the United States would invest
in Pimentel |
| Pimentel’s
mayor stated that a few days ago
several North American businessmen
from the accommodation and entertainment
investment sector arrived in town.
These businessmen are interested
in investing in that area and
plan the construction of high
quality accommodation buildings
aimed at beach and pleasure tourism. |
| Spanish Hotel
chain NH is planning to enter
the Peruvian market |
| The chain foresees
entering the Peruvian market during
the next year. The company would
foresee entering not only Peru
but also Bulgaria in 2008. During
this year, the hotel chain entered
Poland and Colombia. Likewise,
the company also wants to open
hotels in London, Paris and New
York, similar to the one which
it has in Milan under the Nhow
brand. |
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| Presentation of
Ecuador Travel Mart ETM 2008 in
Puyo |
| The chairwoman
of the International Show of
Tourism presented in Puyo, province
of Pastaza, her star program:
the Ecuador Travel Mart ETM
2008, Rueda de Negocios which
will take place in Cuenca in
April. |
| Aerogal began
operations towards Miami |
| The airline began
its operations with a flight departing
from Guayaquil to Miami. The inaugural
flight was the first of an Ecuadorian
company to the United States after
more than ten years. |
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| First agency for
the gay community in Bogota |
| Duo-ravel,
business unit of a well-known
travel agency of Bogota, offers
programs so that homosexuals
can visit Colombia or any other
destination in the world. It
is the first agency in Colombia
to be accredited with the International
Gay & Lesbian Travel Association
(IGLTA), the most important
organization worldwide dedicated
at promoting all the business
ventures of the LGBT community
through tourism. |
| Avianca with more
flights for the end of year |
| Avianca increased
the service in the Cali-Madrid
route from two to four weekly
flights. This measure was adopted
thanks to the renegotiation of
the bilateral agreement between
Spain and Colombia a few weeks
ago, where not only Avianca’s
frequencies were increased, but
also Iberia’s and Air Comet’s.
The Civil Aviation authority of
Colombia notified the company
of the approval of the Bogota-Frankfurt
and Bogota-London routes, destinations
to which the airline had already
flown but had left due to financial
problems. The airline’s
pretension to fly to Paris was
postponed for the next audience. |
| Sonesta Chain
will construct three hotels |
| Sonesta, in a
strategic alliance with GHL Hotels,
announced an investment of US$
70 million for the construction
of hotels in Bogota, Barranquilla
and Cartagena. It will construct
a 127 room hotel in Bogota, located
in the 127 street with carrera
15. The Hotel Sonesta Barranquilla,
which will have 113 rooms, will
be constructed in the new development
area of the Atlantic’s capital,
the Buena Vista area. The Sonesta
Cartagena hotel, which will operate
under the name of Seaway 935 and
will consist of 100 rooms and
100 apartments, will be managed
by the GHL Hotels group, under
the franchise of the North American
chain. |
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| Tourism will grow
by 12% |
| The strategy
of the System of Central American
Integration (Sica) of promoting
six countries as one under the
name “Central America:
so small….so great…”
has had good results in the
European Union. For the closure
of this year, the Sica estimates
that the region will receive
7.86 million tourists. |
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| Wyndham Set to
Open First Hotel |
| The Wyndham
Hotels and Resorts brand will
fly its first flag in Panama
with the conversion of the 301-room
Veneto Hotel & Casino in
Panama City to the Veneto, A
Wyndham Grand Hotel. The introduction
of the Wyndham brand in Panama
is part of the brand’s
strategy to pursue flagship
Wyndham hotel properties in
key international and gateway
cities. |
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| Crowne Plaza Brand
Gets its Big Break |
| InterContinental
Hotels Group announced that
the Holiday Inn San Pedro Sula
has become the Crowne Plaza
San Pedro Sula. The 122-room,
15-story Crowne Plaza is the
first in the country of Honduras
and is located in the city of
San Pedro Sula and close to
the city’s main tourist
destinations. |
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| Mexicana will
fly to Calgary |
| As from June
1st of next year, Mexicana de
Aviacion will operate the City
of Mexico-Calgary flight, in
the Rocky Mountains of Alberta,
Canada. |
| Delta Air Lines
will begin flights to Queretaro |
| The commercial
director of Delta Air Lines informed
that as from January 14th, 2008,
the airline will fly between Queretaro
and Atlanta, beginning operations
with five weekly flights, with
a capacity for 700 passengers
on the route. Queretaro will be
the 19th destination in Mexico
and will connect the State with
different international flights,
via the Hartsfield-Jackson airport. |
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| Prepares high
season of tourism |
| The Cuban
infrastructure is preparing
for the present high season
of tourism, with the expectation
of growing in approximately
7.5% in relation to the previous
season. According to the sector’s
authorities, the aim is to attract
1.3 million visitors. |
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| Costa
Rica : North Caribbean |
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North
Caribbean comprises the caribbean
coast and goes from the San
Juan River to Limón city.
Limón city is the touristic
center of this Corridor, simultaneously
working as an accommodation,
stop over, distribution and
touring center. READ
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