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0.65 - Argentina 3.11 - Bolivia
7.21 - Brasil 1.62 - Chile 479.54
- Colombia 1,744,01 - México
10.10- Paraguay 4.030- Perú
2.840 - Uruguay 19.30- Venezuela
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The government
of Buenos Aires will strengthen
promotion of tango abroad |
| The head of the
Buenos Aires Government and the
Minister of Culture and chairman
of the Tourism Entity of the City
announced the plan for participation
in international festivals to
continue strengthening and positioning
tango abroad. The aim is to spread
and coordinate the efforts and
activities which make Buenos Aires
a cultural destination to other
countries. |
LAN will have more flights to
the interior of the country
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LAN Argentina
announced new flights between
Buenos Aires and the cities
of Neuquen and San Juan. In
the first case, it will add
two daily frequencies as of
July 15th. The government of
Neuquen announced that it is
working on the specifications
for the call for bids for new
routes in order to have flights
to the cities of Rincon de los
Sauces and San Martin de los
Andes. Flights to San Juan will
begin in August with four frequencies
per week. |
| Sur Lineas Aereas
explores new routes |
| In order to increase
connectivity between cities within
the country, Sur Lineas Aereas
presented its new plan of operations
which covers the following initial
destinations with charter flights:
Ushuaia, Comodoro, Rivadavia,
Rio Gallegos, Montevideo and El
Calafate. |
| Celebrity will
offer trips to Antarctica |
| For the first
time, Celebrity will begin offering
trips to Antarctica. The Celebrity
Infinity, which holds 2,050 passengers,
will operate two 14-night cruises
from Buenos Aires. The first trip
will depart on January 31st, 2010,
and the second on February 14th. |
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LAN revaluates its routes in
view of cost increases |
In a scenario
in which petroleum has become
50% of flight costs, and almost
60% for longer flights, Lan
is evaluating the routes that
it operates and predicts less
growth in its operations, said
the company’s executive
vice president. |
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| Pluna inaugurates
routes to Rosario and Curitiba |
| Beginning in June,
Pluna will fly to Rosario and
Curitiba with routes which will
be inaugurated with promotional
fares for its Montevideo destinations. |
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Seeks to attract Iberia and
Copa Airlines flights
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The National
Direction of Civil Aviation
(DINAC) informed that Paraguay
would be negotiating the entry
of Iberia (Spain), Copa (Central
America) and a third important
Latin American airline into
the country. |
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DGAC suspends AS flights |
The General
Direction of Civil Aviation
(DGAC) once again suspended
Aerolineas Sudamericanas’
(AS) aircraft. The airline’s
president affirmed that the
company will present a corresponding
complaint since “it is
an illegal and arbitrary measure.”
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INC
prepares comprehensive plan
to reevaluate the Archaeological
Complex of Kotos. |
| Huanuco´s
INC (National Culture Institute)
will prepare a comprehensive
plan for the revaluation of
the Archaeological Complex of
Kotos. The head of the institution
specified that this initiative
has the aim of “revaluating”
the complex due to its importance
for the country. |
| Launching of Inti
Raymi Festivities |
| The Emufec released
the Imperial City’s program
of festivities and the traditional
Inti Raymi to Cusco, the country
and the world. |
| Inka Rail and
Andean Railways would operate
route to Machu Picchu |
| Fetransa informed
Inka Rail that it will proceed
with an auction for the schedule
it had requested, and will make
the same announcement to Andean
Railways on May 27th regarding
the five schedules that it had
asked for. |
| Inkaterra Titilaka
Soft opening |
| Representatives
of 10 of the country’s most
important receptive tourism agencies
inaugurated the new Inkaterra
hotel on Lake Titicaca in a soft
opening. Located about 30 minutes
from Puno in Chacras, the project,
among other things, seeks to reintegrate
the former hotel on which it is
constructed into the local landscape
as well as into the community. |
| Accor will begin
construction of three-star hotel |
| In the first quarter
of 2009, the French hotel chain
Accor, will begin the construction
of a three-star Ibis brand hotel
in Miraflores (Lima), announced
the sales manager of Accor in
Peru. The investment will be US$
10 million. |
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New TAME route from Guayaquil
to Ambato |
TAME will fly
from Guayaquil to Ambato to
cover commercial sector demand
for the capital of Tungurahua,
as well as touristic demand
for the city of Banos, a beach
town which receives more than
a million tourists per year.
This route would also cover
the touristic and commercial
needs of Puyo, the capital of
Pastaza, which is located 90
minutes away from Ambato. |
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| New
flight to New York
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| After receiving
official approval from the American
Department of Transportation,
Delta Air Lines announced that
as of August 19th it will make
daily flights to New York. The
new New York-Bogota flight complements
the already existing flight
to Colombia from the Hartsfield
Jackson International Airport
of Atlanta. |
| Easyfly begins
operations between Medellin, Bogota
and Armenia |
| Easyfly took the
risk of beginning operations at
a time when more than half a dozen
of the world’s major league
airlines had closed due to their
inability to withstand increases.
It flies from Bogota to Barrancabermeja,
Armenia, Arauca, Ibague, Neiva,
Yopal and Cartago; and from Medellin
to Armenia and Bogota. |
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San Luis Postosi inaugurates
first Latin American museum
hotel
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In order to
satisfy the increasing international
demand for hotels, the Palacio
de San Agustin was introduced
in the beautiful colonial city
of San Luis Potosi. |
| AeroMexico inaugurates
route to Shanghai |
| AeroMexico announced
its new route with two weekly
frequencies to Shanghai, with
which it will extend its coverage
of the Asian continent. |
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| US$ 10 million
invested in the remodeling of
Puerto de Colon |
| Panama is impatiently
awaiting the visit of the Royal
Caribbean cruise ship, which would
dock at the Puerto de Colon 2000
within the next seven months,
and will top off the country’s
recent good experience regarding
cruise ship tourism. To this end,
it plans to improve the port’s
infrastructures, which will be
expanded with an investment of
US$ 10 million. |
| TACA
will operate direct flight to
El Salvador |
| TACA announced
that it will begin the operation
of a daily direct flight between
its hub in El Salvador and Panama
City as of June 12th in order
to offer a new service option
to its clients. |
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Air Europa will open route between
Madrid and Puerto Plata for
the first time |
| This
summer, Air Europa will begin
a new route linking Madrid and
Puerto Plata, announced the
secretary of tourism after meeting
with the chairman of the Globalia
Group in Spain. |
| Air
Dominicana ready to fly |
| The
Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation
(IDAC) will grant certification
authorizing Air Dominicana’s
Boeing 737 airplane to fly after
the plane has completed the 50
hours of required flight time. |
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| ARGENTINA : The Wine Route |
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Through
the ways of the wine you may
known the cellars of Mendoza
and enjoy excellent wines, that
are the product of the Ecological
Wine culture and have- all the
red- and a high antioxidant
capacity associated with different
pholifenol amounts in its content.
In the last three years an important
reconvention of vineyards, what
allows Mendoza as the point
of the ax of the Argentina,
have a biggest amount of high
quality wines to satisfy the
increasing demand of the international
market. In the mentioned period
were implanted in Mendoza province
more than 25.000 Hectare of
new vineyards of fine varieties
of grapes. . Read
more…
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