Brazilians are hanging up their swimsuits and donning snowsuits for this year’s winter ski season in Chile. Ski resorts have built strong campaigns with Chilean operators, agencies and media to increase visits from Brazil to the country’s ski slopes.
Jamaica’s tourism arrivals from January through March jumped 8.3 percent over the same period last year, and the destination is on track to better its 3.6 percent annual increase in 2009, according to John Lynch, director of tourism and chairman of the Jamaica Tourist Board.
Disappointed by bookings for the World Cup, South Africa’s tourism industry says benefits could accrue for years from the publicity around the world’s most-watched sporting event.
GTA by Travelport, one of the world’s leading wholesalers of ground content, announced this week that GTA Americas is hosting a ‘Visit North America Road Show’ in China this June. The road show, to be held in Shanghai and Beijing between 21 and 26 June, will bring together North American representatives of convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and travel suppliers in a single forum.
The Jamaican cruise port at Falmouth, currently under construction through a partnership between the Port Authority of Jamaica and Royal Caribbean International, is nearing completion of its marine construction phase, including dredging of the sea floor, and will begin the building construction phase shortly, said John Tercek, Royals Caribbean’s vice president of commercial development.
At the General Session of the Annual Tourism Conference Aruba, Otmar Oduber, Minister of Tourism, Transport and Labor, explained that the Aruba Tourism Authority will be privatized as of January 1, 2011.