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0.74 - Argentina 3.11 - Bolivia
7.89- Brasil 2.03 - Chile 525.96
- Colombia 1,940 - México
10.74 Paraguay 5,040 - Perú
3.16 - Uruguay 23.30 Venezuela
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| Whale-watching
tourism will be promoted |
| Whale watching
tourism promotes in coast populations
the idea that, from an economic
point of view, whales are worth
more alive than dead, the director
for Latin America of the International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
Almost 100 countries around the
world promote watching-tourism
and more than 10 million people
participate in watching trips,
generating an income of over US$
1,000 million annually. |
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| Sheraton
acquires other two hotel chains
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| Starwood confirmed
for 2008 the inauguration of the
first Four Points in Puerto Madryn
and announced that the domestic
market has a potential for ten
to fifteen hotels in that market
segment. The facility will have
80 rooms and will be managed by
Starwood group, while the investment
will be charged to an investor
group from Puerto Madryn. |
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A new passenger terminal will
be built in Carrasco |
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American
will increase flights to Montevideo |
| The International
Airport of Carrasco will build
a modern Passenger Terminal with
an investment of US$ 134 million.
Along with it, a platform for
aircrafts will be built in order
to carry out the boarding and
disembarkation of passengers using
telescopic aerobridges directly
to the building. |
American Airlines
in Buenos Aires announced that,
starting from July, it will have
daily flights from Montevideo
to Miami with three weekly direct
operations and four via Buenos
Aires. Likewise, from mid November,
five operations will become non-stop
between Montevideo and Miami while
the two remaining will be carried
out from Buenos Aires. |
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| GOL
gives priority to Varig routes
to Europe and Mexico |
| The resumption
of operations to Europe and Mexico
will be the priority of the new
Varig traffic controller. GOL
announced it entered into agreements
in order to rent aircrafts to
Boeing which will allow to carry
out these flights. In Europe,
Varig has landing and departure
rights in Great Britain, Spain,
France, Germany and Italy. |
| GOL entered into
an agreement with Aerolineas Argentinas
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| Aerolineas Argentinas
and GOL entered into an Add Ons
agreement for domestic flights
which will allow Aerolineas Argentina’s
passengers to travel to the Brasilian
destinations it usually does not
fly to, and to GOL’s passengers
to do the same within Argentina. |
| TAM changes luggage
policy |
| Starting from
May 1st, TAM will limit its passengers
who fly from and to South America
to take only 2 pieces of luggage
with a maximum weight of 23 kilos
each |
| American plans
direct flights to North East |
| American Airlines
might operate direct flights to
the Brasilian North East. The
airline plans to inaugurate a
route uniting Miami with Bahia
or Recife starting from 2008.
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| LAN
plans to make direct connections
between Arica and Arequipa or
Cusco |
| Due to the tourist
potential Arica has, LAN officers
in this city indicated that the
company is evaluating the project
to make direct connections to
Peruvian southern cities, especially
Arequipa or Cusco. |
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| Machu
Picchu would not be declared in
emergency |
| One of the four
members of the special commission
of Unesco, which performed fieldworks
in Machu Picchu, informed that
he considers the citadel to be
well conserved. |
| Tourist lodge
will be built in Paracas |
| In 6 months approximately,
the hotel company Albergue Turistico
San Agustin, of Peruvian and Spanish
capital, will start the construction
of a tourist lodge in the zone
of "El Chaco La Puntilla".
The new tourist lodge, which will
be similar to the premises built
in Spain, will have rooms, pools,
restaurants, bar, rooms for different
uses, balconies, gardens, parking,
among other services. This lodge
has been designed for tourists
interested in the sea and wild
fauna. |
| Spirit Airlines
will cover Florida-Chiclayo route |
| The General Direction
of Civil Aeronautics announced
that the American airline Spirit
is getting ready to receive the
flight authorization to provide
the service of regular passenger,
cargo and mail transportation,
on the routes Florida-Lima and
Florida-Chiclayo. The authorities
will grant Spirit up to ten weekly
frequencies per route. |
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| Controlled
tourism continues as normal in
Galapagos |
| The Minister of
Tourism of Ecuador has a clear
position about this issue: to
protect the Archipelago from any
non sustainable activity. She
said so after thanking UNESCO
mission for its concern about
Galapagos Islands. |
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| Medellin
inaugurates 4 hotels and leads
tourist boom |
| The recovery of
the tourist sector in this country
is evidenced in the construction
of new hotels, theme parks and
convention centers. According
to the Vice Minister of Tourism,
the boom is general and goes from
coast to coast in the country.
The main capitals of department
included the tourism sector into
their competitiveness strategies. |
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| Copa
Airlines will fly to new destinations
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| Copa Airlines,
subsidiary of Copa Holdings S.A,
announced that it will offer new
services from Panama and its connection
cities in Latin America to Punta
Cana and Washington starting from
July 15th. |
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| Aeromexico
will inaugurate a new route |
| Starting from
July 4, Aeromexico will start
daily direct flights between Seattle
and Mexico city, with direct connection
to Guadalajara. The Vice President
of Sales and Market from the American
and Canadian division of the airline
declared that Aeromexico will
extend its service between USA
and Mexico. |
| Delta Airlines
extends it services |
| Delta Airlines
plans to extend its services to
this country starting with several
non stop flights between Los Angeles
and Tijuana and Zacatecas. Flights
to Tijuana and from that border
city to Los Angeles will start
on June 7th and there will be
2 daily flights. Flights to Zacatecas
will be carried out three times
per week starting from June 8th. |
| Iberostar opens
its eighth hotel |
| Iberostar Hotels
& Resorts inaugurated its
eight hotel in Mexico, the Iberostar
Grand Hotel Paraiso, a luxurious
five-star facility located in
the Paraiso Beach, between Cancun
and Playa del Carmen, surrounded
by spacious gardens including
three pools, one with salty water,
one covered and conditioned and
a fresh water lake. |
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HONDURAS Roatan Island |
| The
beautiful Caribbean island of
Roatan, in the Bay Islands of
Honduras, offers some of the world's
best scuba diving. The island
is surrounded by the world's second
largest coral reef, hugging most
of the shore. This provides calm,
clear beaches for swimming and
snorkeling, and many varieties
of sea life. Almost every hotel,
vacation rental, resort, and other
lodging is close enough to walk
to beaches, and Roatan's many
excellent dive operators assure
convenient access.
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