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0.73- Argentina 3.12 - Bolivia
7.81 - Brasil 1.86 - Chile 514.66
- Colombia 1,720 - México
10.56 Paraguay 5,070 - Perú
3.16 - Uruguay 23.15 - Venezuela
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| Clouds Train will
be working in October |
As from October,
the tourist trip of the Clouds
Train will be resumed. The service
was stopped several years ago.
The railway, which passes by
spectacular landscapes and which
has become one of the most important
tourist centers of the Argentinean
northern region, will start
working once the consumable
products are received from abroad. |
Argentinean
version of Jerusalem attracts
tourists |
Each hour,
at the same exact moment of
the day, Jesus rises to heaven,
whilst the religious music sounds
high on the speakers hanging
in the plaster cast palms. Promoted
as “a trip through time,
to know how the old Jerusalem
was in Jesus’s times”,
the park, located in the coastal
zone of Buenos Aires, offers
a religious experience along
with a pleasurable trip through
life in past times. |
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| Pluna will fly
to several Argentinean cities
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The airline
inaugurated its first new route
since the Leadgate group assumed
management, with the launching
of a weekly new flight to Madrid.
Pluna plans to fly to Bariloche,
Mendoza, Rosario, Cordoba, El
Calafate and Mar del Plata among
other cities. Likewise, besides
the fifteen aircraft expected
to consolidate Montevideo as
a regional distribution center,
Pluna plans to incorporate four
long range aircrafts and one
cargo aircraft. |
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| Pan de Azucar
invests in total renewal |
Pan de Azucar,
in Rio de Janeiro, will receive
an investment of R$ 6 million
for the total renewal of its
facade. The cable cars will
receive an investment of more
than € 3 million since
they will have four new cabs
which will be operating in October,
for the 95 anniversary of this
tourist attraction. |
| TAM will fly to
Frankfurt and Madrid |
| TAM received the
authorization from the NACA –
National Agency of Civil Aviation
– to fly three times per
week to Frankfurt and seven times
a week to Madrid. The airline
will start to operate before the
end of the year. |
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| Tourist plan to
strengthen economy of La Paz promoted
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In order to
strengthen the economy and to
promote the tourist culture
in the country, the Minister
of Production and Microbusiness,
Celinda Sosa, announced the
bill of law for a tourist, communal,
ecological, cultural, artisan,
railway and lake Circuit and
Complex of the Titicaca Lake,
Guaqui and Tiwanaku. |
| Construction works
for roadway that unites Potosi
and Uyuni underway |
| With the presence
of the President, the representative
of the Andean Development Corporation
and the Brasilian-Bolivian consortium
OAS, which won the call for bidding
called by the Administradora Boliviana
de Carreteras (ABC – Bolivian
Road Management Authority), the
works for the Potosi–Uyuni
road started. |
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| Two tourist circuits
within Machu Picchu will be promoted
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“Machu
Picchu Classic” and “Machu
Picchu Complete” are two
of the tourist circuits which
are planned in order to improve
the control of visits to the
Inca sanctuary. The first circuit
includes a guided visit through
the northern zone of the sanctuary
to the place where the classic
“postcard photograph”
can be taken. The second circuit
includes the access to the religious
zone, among others, in a more
complete trip that visitors
will enjoy. |
| Cotahuasi and
Colca Canyons can be natural wonders
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| The beautiful
landscapes, natural species and
cultural expressions that Colca
and Cotahuasi Canyons have, provide
them with the necessary potential
to be considered as Natural Wonders
of the World. Both canyons have
the necessary conditions to receive
international awards. However,
the Cotahuasi canyon has an advantage
for being deeper and narrower.
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| BIT PERU 2007
was officially introduced |
| In Miraflores
Park Hotel, the BIT Peru 2007
Luxury Collection & Incentives
was introduced to the press and
high management of some of the
most important companies of the
sector. The event will be held
from September 17 to 18 in JW
Marriott Hotel. Orient-Express
Hotels, Trains & Cruises;
JW Marriott Hotel Lima; Country
Club Lima Hotel Mountain Lodges
del Perú; Suites del Bosque;
LAN; Aerolíneas Argentinas,
Amadeus, participated in this
events. The presentation of this
event, which will be the first
South American event aimed at
promoting the luxury and incentives
tourism in the region, had a speakers’
table with the following participants:
Mrs. Lyda Garcia –PromPeru
receptive tourism manager-, Jose
Koechlin – President of
the Peru Hotels Society–
and Fernando Puga – President
of AHORA Peru. The event was in
charge of Eduardo Alt, director
of TRAVEL UPDATE. |
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| Urgent actions
to save Galapagos Islands adopted
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After the inclusion
of Galapagos Islands in Unesco’s
list of world heritage in danger,
the Government of Ecuador adopted
a first package of seven actions
aimed at saving this natural
park. This was announced by
the deputy secretary of Natural
Heritage of the Ministry of
Coordination and Cultural and
Natural Heritage. The deputy
secretary and several ministers,
such as the Minister of Tourism
and officers of the Planning
and Development National Secretary,
gathered in Quito in order to
define actions related to the
problems of the Galapagos Islands. |
| Tame-Express offers
new itineraries |
| By means of a
strategic alliance between Tame
and Saereo, the new service "Tame-Express"
was introduced. This alliance
will allow the provision of a
better service and larger coverage
for the different cities of Ecuador,
offering flights to cities which
had a low level of service or
which did not have it. |
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| XXVII Tourist
Outlet – Anato 2008 |
The 27th Tourist
Outlet– Anato 2008 –will
take place on February 25, 26
and 27, 2008, in Bogota. The
motto of the event will be “Where
tourist businesses have no limits”.
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| Air Canada looks
for one more flight from Bogota
to Toronto |
| Air Canada announced
that once the new fleet arrives,
it will apply for a fourth frequency
between Bogota and Toronto to
the Civil Aeronautic National
Agency. Likewise, they mentioned
that there is great interest in
destinations such as Medellin,
Eje Cafetero, Amazonas, Santa
Marta and the traditional cities
of Cartagena and San Andres, for
which it will be necessary to
increase the frequencies. |
| AeroRepublica
with new route to the coast |
| AeroRepublica
inaugurated the route Cali-Santa
Marta-Cali, with a direct flight
three times per week. The new
route will operate every Tuesday,
Friday and Sunday, with departures
at 1:46 p.m. (Cali-Santa Marta)
and arrivals in Santa Marta at
3:11 p.m.; with a return flight
at 3:36 p.m. (Santa Marta-Cali),
arriving in Cali at 5:01 p.m.
The route complements the operative
plan of the company in Cali. |
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| Cultural tourism
will be promoted |
Classical music,
dance or poetry, or a trip through
the oldest and traditional bars
of San Jose, are part of the
cultural attractions Costa Rica
wants to promote as a strategy
to attract tourists who not
only want to enjoy the nature
of the country. |
| American will
fly to Costa Rica and Dominican
Republic from Fort Lauderdale |
| Starting from
December 13th, American Airlines
will start to fly daily to San
Jose, Costa Rica, and Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, departing
from Fort Lauderdale. Likewise,
it will use larger aircrafts for
flights between Fort Lauderdale
and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and
to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
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| Chichen Itza expects
to duplicate its visitors in the
next five years |
The Mexican
archaeological zone of Chichen
Itza, of which its pyramid was
declared 'new wonder' of humanity,
expects to duplicate the number
of visitors who will visit it
in the next five years, according
to the Mexican Council of Tourist
Promotion. |
| AeroMexico inaugurates
the new route to Guatemala |
| AeroMexico inaugurated
operations in the route to Guatemala,
with which it will cover three
countries of Central America.
The directive officers of the
airline and the managers of Guatemala
declared the arrival of the airline
as "historical" because
it is the first time in 73 years
that AeroMexico arrives in this
Central American country. |
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| Laser unites Venezuela
and Samana |
El Catey airport,
in Samana (Dominican Republic),
will receive 24 charter flights
coming from Venezuela between
the months of July, August and
September, declared the director
of the Tourist Promotion Office
in Venezuela, who also said
that each of these flights will
transport 116 passengers. |
| Casa de Campo
chosen as one of the 10 best resorts
of the Caribbean |
| In a special issue
dedicated to the 2007 summer,
the ‘Celebrated Living’
magazine chose Casa de Campo as
one of the 10 best resorts of
the Caribbean. In the same issue,
its golf course was qualified
among the 20 most important ones
of the region. This magazine will
be available, for several months,
in the first class cabins of American
Airlines. |
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PANAMA Diving
and Snorkeling |
Panamanian
waters host an incredible array
of diving posibilities almost
unknown to many diving enthusiasts.
The Caribbean offers its unlimited
coral reefs ofrece en sus incontables
arrecifes coralinos, and incredible
scenes of underwater life. A true
explosion of colours and shapes
that amaze even the most experienced
and seasoned diver.
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