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Mexican hotel operator City Express plans to go public next month
DestinationsHoteles City Express SAB, a Mexican operator of hotels for business travelers, plans to raise about $250 million in an initial public offering this year, said Abelardo Loscos, a company investor relations official. The hotel operator plans to carry out the offering next month, Loscos said in a telephone interview today from Mexico City, where [...]
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Google Street View to track evolution on the Galapagos Islands
DestinationsFew have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world’s largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Soon it will take only the click of a mouse or finger swipe on a tablet to explore some of the Galapagos Islands’ most [...]
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Avianca to spend $5 billion on planes to meet rising Latin American demand
TransportAvianca Holdings SA Chief Executive Officer Fabio Villegas said the Colombian airline will spend at least $4 billion through 2019 as it buys more than 100 planes to meet rising passenger traffic in Latin America. Avianca, which has total assets of about $4.5 billion, plans to spend $4 billion to $5 billion over the next [...]
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Why turning Medellín into the Silicon Valley of South America is great for tourism
DestinationsTechnology is fueling a social transformation in Medellín, Colombia. A city once better known for Pablo Escobar and cocaine wars is now being heralded as the “Silicon Valley of South America.” In an effort to make Medellín an innovative business hub and leader of contemporary urban design, the city has also become one of the more [...]
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LATAM Airlines settles labor issue, will resume flights to Argentina
TransportLATAM Airlines Group SA <LAN.SN> said on Saturday it will resume flights to, from and within Argentina by 1530 GMT after state company Intercargo unilaterally decided on Friday to stop providing services to the carrier. Argentine state company Intercargo manages services for the loading and unloading of luggage on airplanes, the transportation of passengers on [...]
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Thus proven: stop-motion travel video, so much more fun than timelapse
DestinationsTimelapse, that staple hipsteresque video format that rose to new heights with the rise of YouTube and later Vimeo, tends to overshadow another somewhat underappreciated format: stop-motion video. After a while all timelapses blend into each other, with a languid soundtrack laid over beach/sunset/clouds/buildings/cityscape/people/desert sky/Northern Light vistas. Stop-motion videos meanwhile, are just a lot more fun [...]
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The world’s most popular international meeting destinations
DestinationsThe number and frequency of meetings held by international associations, and the business travel they generate, is on the rise. The International Congress and Convention Association estimates that the number of conventions increased by more than a thousand to 11,150 meetings in 2012. Europe is the most popular destination for international meetings with 12 out [...]
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Belize decries destruction of temples integral to tourism growth
DestinationsThe government of Belize said Tuesday it is pursuing a “vigorous” investigation into a road-building company’s near destruction of one of the country’s largest Mayan pyramids. The Ministry of Tourism and Culture expressed outrage at the demolition of the Nohmul complex in northern Belize to extract crushed rock for a road project. It said it [...]
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Mexico and Puerto Rico now have direct flights for first time in over a decade
TransportOfficials in Puerto Rico say the U.S. territory is welcoming direct flights from Mexico for the first time in 13 years. Port Authority Director Victor Suarez says the first Puerto Rico-bound flight by Mexican-owned Interjet is scheduled to arrive Tuesday night. A second flight is scheduled for May 17. Suarez said the promotional flights would [...]
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The tourist attraction soaring above Rio’s most talked about shantytowns
DestinationsTiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the conglomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns. Three years ago, the communities below made national news as law enforcement swarmed up [...]
