This year, the International Tourism Fair 2007 –FIT- will open its doors in La Rural from November 17th to 20th, with more than 1,800 exhibitors from 50 countries, distributed over an area of 42 000 m2 which in this opportunity will be entirely covered.

As it informed in September, Pluna will increase to three its weekly flights between Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro as from December 3rd. It has also announced a fourth frequency starting the 22nd of the same month.

The Paraguayan chancellor announced that a new Paraguayan flag airline, Ocean Air Paraguay, will operate as from December. He stated that it is expected that it will be able to operate with new equipment.

MITM, Meetings & Incentive Trade Market, informed that its 5 year-old fair, which was previously held in Las Vegas, was incorporated into its 8 year-old MITM Latin American fair. The first combined fair, now called MITM Americas, will be held in Salvador de Bahia from December 13th to the 15th in the Pestana Hotel. www.mitmamericas.com

Lan executed a purchase agreement for 26 Boeing 787 Dreamliner, in an operation which reached US$ 4 500 million. LAN will lease another six aircraft as from 2011, having, in addition, purchase options for another ten aircrafts, with which it surpasses the other two Latin American airlines on the request list: Aeromexico and Avianca.

The INC-Cusco will invest a total of S/.23’175,000 in archaeological investigation, restoration works and the value enhancement of the architectural structures and pre Hispanic routes situated in the Archaeological Reserve of Machupicchu. The director of said institution mentioned that the works, which will begin in February, 2008, will last 3 years.

The company informed that Air Comet inaugurated a new frequency in its Bogota-Madrid route with an Airbus 340 with a seating capacity for 220 passengers in Economic class and 40 in Executive class.

Guatemala, through the Ministry of Culture, launched a cultural tourist plan which includes the churches built in the east of the country during the colonial period, as informed the Central American Tourist Promotion (CATA).

The Development director of Donald Trump International/Irongate announced that some plots close to Tulum, Quintana Roo, are under evaluation for the construction of a tourist project with a US$ 200 to 350 million investment, adding that they intend to close the deal regarding the land to start a hotel project under the condohotel segment. Currently, the company has a project called Trump Ocean Resort Baja underway. This is in Rosarito, Baja California, although investing in Los Cabos and Puerto Peñasco is also under study.

3,800 masl, where land and water get close to the blue sky and its cotton-white clouds and starry nights, you can see landscapes of undulating hills, wide valleys and snowcapped ranges – there is Puno and its Titicaca Lake, South America’s inner sea – its cultures and traditions divided in aymaras and quechuas who live off the lake, use its resources and farm its surroundings. This dynamic land – water with resources usable by modern and ancient man, is located at the shores around the lake and its islands. READ MORE