Outside Santiago’s Fine Arts Museum is a fallen cornice broken into chunks and strewn across marble steps. But inside, sculpture stands firmly beneath a perfectly intact glass cupola.
A top Bahamian tourism official defended the government’s decision to lease nearly half a dozen cays that have been transformed into private island paradises by major cruise liners.
Vietnam’s Princess d’Annam Resort and Spa on Ke Ga Bay is offering a learn-to-kite surf package. Launched April 1, the package is set at $1,295 for two surfers staying three nights, including accommodation and two three-hour sessions with an internationally qualified instructor.
The Park Kolkata, a member of The Park Hotels collection of luxury boutique properties in India, has unveiled a new look following a $9.8 million refurbishment that resulted in a revamped lobby, reception space, dining areas and luxury premium suites. Conran & Partners were commissioned to revitalize the look of the first Park Hotel, the 149-room property situated on fashionable Park Street.
Tourists returned to the Machu Picchu temples in Peru which was closed for two months after deadly storms destroyed the main access to the site. Torrential rains in late January forced the evacuation of more than 4,000 people by air from the 15th century city in the Andes and claimed seven lives.
A return visit to the Brazilian state of Roraima by a sizeable Guyanese business delegation following last week’s ground-breaking encounter with a multi-sectoral Brazilian business team in Georgetown is likely before the end of 2010, according to president of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana Paul Stephenson.