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0.74 - Argentina 3.09 - Bolivia
7.85 - Brasil 1.94 - Chile 527.38
- Colombia 1,730 - México
10.65 Paraguay 5,060 - Perú
3.16 - Uruguay 23.30 - Venezuela
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| Princess Cruises
is planning its biggest deployment
to date for the 2008-2009 |
| The Pacific Princess,
the Royal Princess and the Star
Princess will run 21 departures
on six different itineraries,
including two new ones: a 12-day
sailing on the Royal Princess
between Fort Lauderdale and Guayaquil,
Ecuador, which includes an optional
cruise-tour to the Galapagos;
and a 14-day Cape Horn sailing
on the Star Princess between Rio
de Janeiro and Santiago, Chile.
The Pacific Princess will operate
nine Amazon cruises, a record
number for the line. |
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| Accessible tourism
for deaf people |
| Travel agencies
would have appropriate personnel
to attend to deaf people. Likewise,
they would count with the support
of companies in order to finance
essential tools to improve communication
or to improve new technologies
in this area. |
| 4th Ice Feast
in El Calafate |
| On July 7th and
8th the 4th Ice Feast will be
carried out in the Santa Cruz
locality of El Calafate. This
event is carried out every year
when the Argentinean Lake is frozen.
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| Ski center in
Villa La Angostura is renewed |
| Fiducia Holding,
company which manages the ski
center of Cerro Bayo, in Villa
La Angostura, Neuquen, has been
remodeled. The hill has 23 strips
and, starting from this year,
it will have a GPS system which
will allow tracing the location
of each visitor. There will also
be Wi-Fi service for wireless
connection to Internet from any
computer. |
| 500 spas will
be built during this year |
| 500 spas will
be built this year, 300 of which
will be built in Buenos Aires,
most of them in four and five
star hotels, with an investment
of US$ 50 million in equipment.
For the end of the year, there
would be an offer of 1,400 facilities
of different sizes. |
| Aerolineas Argentinas
entered into an agreement with
Delta |
| Aerolineas Argentinas
and Delta Air Lines entered into
an agreement by which each company
will accept the tickets issued
by the other company, so that
passengers may use the services
of any of them when one of the
companies is not able to offer
a certain schedule. |
| Agreement between
Aerolineas Argentinas and El Al |
| The reciprocal
agreement entered into by both
companies is aimed at transporting
passengers between Argentina and
the State of Israel. Passengers
will be able to travel by Aerolineas
Argentinas to Roma or Madrid and
then fly to Israel via El Al airline.
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| Lufthansa resumes
non stop flights to Buenos Aires |
| Starting as from
October 27th, Lufthansa will resume
its non stop flights between Frankfurt
and Buenos Aires. These will be
served on Mondays, Wednesdays,
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays,
while on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Lufthansa will continue operating
with a stopover in Sao Paulo,
Brasil. |
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| Tourism International
Festival in Iguazu |
| From June 27th
to 30th, and for second consecutive
year, the InternationalTourism
Festival will be carried out in
Iguazu. This event will count
with the participation of Mexican,
Peruvian, Colombian, Venezuelan
and American representatives,
besides the committees from the
Mercosur members which assisted
in 2006. |
| Embraer entered
into an agreement with JAL and
Lufthansa for 40 jets |
| Embraer entered
into an agreement with Lufthansa
for 30 units of its passenger
jet Regional 190 and a purchase
order from Japan Airlines for
10 170 model aircrafts. The Japanese
company also took options for
another five 170 aircrafts, a
model smaller than the 190 model.
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| Air China to Launch
A330 on Beijing-Madrid-Sao Paulo
Route |
| Chinese flag carrier
Air China is to apply wide-body
A330 on Beijing-Madrid-Sao Paulo
route come into effect from June
17th 2007, aiming to bring maximum
comfort and uplifting experience
to passengers flying between China,
Spain and South America. |
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| VAT would not
be charged to foreign visitors |
| In Chile, the
exemption of VAT for the purchase
of goods and services carried
out by foreign tourists has been
proposed. The arguments in favor
of this measure aim at the promotion
of tourism, the reactivation of
the economical activity of Pymes
devoted to the commercialization
of tourist merchandising, the
increase of currency capting and
the struggle against tax evasion.
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| LAB workers demand
“financial help” from
the Government |
| Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
(LAB) workers demand financial
help from the Government, in order
that the air company may resume
operations as soon as possible
so that it does not lose the license
on June 29th. |
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| Inti Raymi with
celebrities |
| As occurs every
June 24, the Inti Raymi or Fiesta
del Sol was carried out on last
Sunday. This event is considered
as the greatest, most spectacular
and ostentatious feast of the
Incas. The ceremony started in
the Coricancha temple and ended
in the Sacsayhuaman esplanade.
Six hundred actors performed in
the dramatization, one hundred
more than last year. During these
days Cusco was visited by celebrities
such as the actress Cameron Diaz
and the multimillionaire Bill
Gates. The actress is filming
a documental about Cusco for an
American chain since some days
ago, while the IT magnate is on
a tourism visit. |
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| Tame buys two
Embraer-190 aircrafts |
Tame confirmed
the two purchase options for
Embrear 190 aircrafts included
in the contract. The delivery
of the new aircrafts would be
carried out at the end of the
year, thus increasing the number
of Brasilian aircrafts in the
airline to five. |
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| Opera and classical
music in parks of Bogota |
In order that
the city of Bogota be able to
have live classical music, the
First Philharmonic Season in
Parks, which will last until
July 1st, starts. The Orchestra
will visit seven parks in six
of Bogota’s localities:
Antonio Nariño, Los Martires,
Engativa, Kennedy, Fontibon
and Teusaquillo. The entrance
is free. |
Juan Valdez
joined Avianca |
Cafe de Colombia
and Avianca signed a strategic
alliance in order to promote
and strengthen nationwide and
abroad, its corresponding signs,
pride of Colombia beyond its
borders. In this sense, Juan
Valdez, the character that represents
more than 500,000 families that
produce café, literally
“got on” the Avianca
aircrafts and will appear in
the external fuselage of the
same. |
| Avianca ordered
19 aircrafts from Airbus |
| Avianca ordered
fourteen A320 aircrafts and five
A330-200 aircrafts from the European
consortium Airbus for long run
flights for an amount of approximately
US$ 1,800 million. With these,
the total number of aircrafts
ordered by the Colombian company
to Airbus sums up to 57. |
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| Taca will reduce
air tariffs |
Taca will reduce
the cost of the air tariffs
by between 20% and 65% in order
to increase the flow of tourists
in Central America. This campaign
has a motto: "Live, fly,
Central America is yours".
Belize, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El
Salvador are the destinations
included in this new strategy.
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| Rumors about visas
and vaccines for visitors are
denied |
The Minister
of Tourism denied that the measure
of reducing the duration of
stay for tourists in the country
to only 30 days has been taken.
He also denied that the country
is requesting vaccines for the
entrance to the territory. Tourists
can come to Panama for up to
90 days, with two extensions
after the first 30 days, in
both cases the visa or tourism
card are requested. |
Veneto Hotel
& Casino will become Wyndham
Gran Hotel |
Silver Associate
& Company group, new owner
of the Panamanian Hotel Veneto
Hotel & Casino, announced
that it will be operated under
the "Wyndham" franchise,
which is present in the United
States, Puerto Rico, Bahamas,
England, Russia and other countries. |
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Health tourism
is strengthened |
The American
company All American Homes RPC
will build in Costa Rica a health
tourism specialized hotel with
an investment of US$34.5 million.
The Ailanto Wellness Resort
and Spa hotel will be located
in the rural community of La
Fortuna de Bagaces, on the shores
of the Miravalles volcano, and
plans to open at the end of
2008. |
| Mandarin Oriental
will build a luxury resort |
| Mandarin Oriental
Hotel Group informed that it will
manage a new and luxurious beach
resort that will be named Residences
at Playa Manzanillo, in Guanacaste,
in the north of the country. |
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| Confirms agreement
to protect sites declared as world
heritage |
The Ministry
of Tourism, the Mexican Council
for Tourism Promotion and the
foundations of the Alliance
for the World Heritage, Expedia
Inc., and the United Nations,
renewed its association to promote
and preserve the sites declared
as world heritage in Mexico
until 2012. In this sense, the
letter of intent by which Mexico
adheres as member of the Alliance
for World Heritage was signed
again. |
| Foreign investment
in Mexico's Hotel Real Estate
booms with a ten-time multiple |
| Foreign investment
in Mexico's hotel real estate
has boomed to achieve a 10-time
multiple since 2000, as reported
in a joint research initiative
between Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
and Mexico's National Trust for
Tourism Development (FONATUR).
The total amount of foreign investment
in Mexico totaled $640 million
in 2006, representing an annual
compound growth rate of 135%. |
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CHILE Chilean-Patagonia |
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Chilean-Patagonia
is located at the southernmost
tip of the South American continent.
Unpredictable weather conditions
are always present which in fact
means that everyday of tour is
going to be such an adventure.
The last peninsula is on the way
of Cape Horn and the Antartic
Continent in front of the big
Island of Fireland.
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