The arrival of foreign tourists grew by 15% last year, reaching the amount of 2.2 million visitors. Most tourists to visit Argentina during 2007 came from Brasil, the United States, Chile, Spain and Italy.

The influx of tourists during the first two weeks of January grew by 17%, with respect to the same period in 2007, with the arrival of 68,425 visitors.

TAM began its Caracas-Brasil flight, with a daily frequency, which has an advantage in comparison to its main competitor Varig, in that it has two stopovers during the seven-hour flight.

BBVA Real Estate has on file millionaire projects in Chile for its 47 hectare property located in the Las Tacas area in the Coquimbo Region. It involves an initial investment of approximately US$ 15 million.

Aerolineas Sudamericanas (AS) began flights with charter flights between Santa Cruz and La Paz. The company will receive the authorization to begin regular flights from the Superintendency within 10 and 15 days.

This year two million tourists are expected to arrive in the country, this amount being superior by 11% to that registered in 2007. This would mean an approximate income of US$ 2,200 million for the concept of receptive tourism.

More than 10 tourist plans are being commercialized on a travel agency’s web site, which is seeking to formally place the country on the international tourist map of the LGBT community.

The Central American Tourism Association will open an office in the United States for the joint promotion of the region and there will be a joint effort in the tourism fairs of Europe.

This month, the Coffee Producers Cooperatives Consortium of Guanacaste and Montes de Oro R.L. will open a new tourist complex where the qualities and characteristics of coffee will be displayed. This group of nine cooperatives puts to use the installments of what used to be the Tilaran Cooperative (Coopetila), which declared bankruptcy in July, 2005.

Hilton Hotels Corporation opened its first establishment in Costa Rica, the Hilton Papagayo Resort Costa Rica, with an all-inclusive system, with 202 rooms.

The Benito Juarez Ciudad de Mexico International Airport mobilized 25,881,662 local and international passengers in 2007, with a 4.7% increase with respect to the 24,727,296 passengers in 2006. From January to December of last year, 16,592,422 local passengers and 9,289,240 passengers from other parts of the world used the capital’s airport.

Governmental authorities announced an income increase of 18.4%, as well as an 8.4% increase in the number or foreign tourists that visited Guatemala during 2007. The income that the tourist industry generated amounted to US$ 1,199 million. Last year, 1,627,552 tourists visited the country.

The Edenh Real Arena, situated in the Punta Cana area, is already operative. This becomes NH Hotels’ first establishment in the Dominican Republic.

The historical Morro-Cabaña Park of Havana will reopen its doors to the 28th edition of FITCUBA 2008, the most important event of the tourist industry in the biggest island of the West Indies. From May 5th to the 9th, professionals and visitors will enjoy the varied offer that characterizes Cuba as a tourist destination.

When we think about the Inca Trail, the “traditional” Inca trail, we picture amazing sceneries, a great amount of winding up and down hills, endless slopes through beautiful mountains, the possibility of seeing diverse flora and fauna as we pass through different ecosystems related to the many altitudes along the path, passing through the typical Andean scenery and reaching the tropical forest. Read more...