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Cruise visitors tend to be wealthy, well educated and often retired. This is probably the reason for the low level of visits to the the Islanders by Argentine cruisers. There are very few wealthy and...
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Yeah looking good. Lazy jealous RG's must be losing interest in disrupting FI cruise industry. Oil likely to be a similar story.
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It's funny that Think posted those stats which show a positive result is very likely for the Falkland Island's which only shows what we already know, Argentina's ability to influence the affairs of...
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Actually Think not only can I read but I can count as well. According to the article, last year ~17% of the expected visitors failed to materialise, but assuming a similar drop-out rate this year then...
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@3 Mamarracho #2 "But they don't encourage us to visit, in spite of the horrendous visit numbers from their closest neighbour." Kindly clarify who these "horrendous" people are? And while you are at...
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(4) Redrow Nope.... According to the factual figures, the Malvinas cruise tourism decline of about 50% has been constant since 2008 until today... The 2014/15 cruise ship season will start in about...
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So according to your figures a recent decline has been reversed. Surely that is a good thing - for the islanders anyway? I think I'm beginning to understand why you think Axel is an economic genius.
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I thought the Argentines were obsessed in visiting the Falklands, yet I see USA, Brazil, Europe, Asia... 99% of Argentines don't even give the islands a 2nd thought for a vacation. In fact if I said...
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"52,000 passengers due to land with 86 calls to Stanley and a further 113 calls to various Camp landings as well." umm... the clue is in the first sentence, Thicko. 52,000 want to visit an island of...
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Malvinas Islands: "looking good for cruise ship season"... If memory serves me right...: Season 2007/08 yielded some 60,000 visitors... Season 2010/11 some 50,000... Season 2013/14 just 39,500......
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Paulcedron- with a rant it pays to at least be factual - avoids being branded an idiot. Yes Arg tourists are quite welcome to visit the Islands - same as all other nationals. Now if they act stupid and...
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benson & islander it is just a bit of rant. don´t get mad. now, the most southerly internationally accredited marathon is tha maratón del fin del mundo in ushuaia. and about argentines going to the...
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Paulecdron- Please can you answer us- WHEN are you ever going to write on here about something you know and is not utter ignorant rubbish? Please Explain to me WHY is Tourism the 2nd biggest part of...
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@Paulcedron Genuine question Paul, have you ever been to the Falklands? Where have you seen the Falklands advertising jungles and cities? The rest we do have at least on occasion if not all of the time.
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the big problem with all this, is that the islets cannot promote something they do not have. i mean, to promote tourism you have to have natural attractions, cultural life, sport events, cosmopolitan...
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The Falkland Islands exist. They're British. People visit them. They have oil. All the rest is just blah blah blah (in Spanish usually).
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Paulecdron, FACTS - majority of cruise tourists are on ships spending 8-10 hours in Port FACT -Security Scanners are in use at the pier terminal. FACT- many are 25-45 yrs in high summer on the larger...
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The more Argentina scweams and shwouts about the mythical malvinas, the higher the profile of The Falkland Islands rises. Nice one Cristina, excellent work. Free publicity for the Falklands and nothing...
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