With an average timeliness above 93 percent, Copa Airlines is celebrating the third anniversary of operations in Brazil by notching up the number of weekly flights to Sao Paolo from four to six. Copa Airlines has recently nabbed several awards thanks to its superb service and for boasting the region’s best fleet of high-tech aircraft. Suffice it to say the carrier will add new Boeing 737-800 planes to its stock later this year.
Jo-Anne Croes will take over the front office of the Aruba Tourism Department’s official website (www.aruba.com), while Ryan Koolman will be at the helm of the PR Division.
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano airlines (LAB) has begun operating three weekly round-trip flights between the cities of Cusco in Peru and Bolivia’s Sucre in an effort to weld them together in one single tourist circuit.
The biggest tourist attractions in northern Chile, the geysers of El Tatio right in the heart of the Andean Mountain Range, have already been marked to avoid the risk of accidents.
Oscar Santelices, head of the country’s National Tourism Service, informed all paths and trails have been properly marked with signs written in two languages. Authorities there have also opened new and larger parking lots.
“Those security measures were indispensable,” Mr. Santelices said, “because the recklessness of some and the ignorance of others have led to deadly accidents on the premises.”
The residents of Rio de Janeiro, with the support of their mayor’s office, are trying to make a very ambitious dream come true: turn their celebrated town into The City of Brazilian Cinema. This is the only municipality in the country that stimulates and pours funds into the development of moviemaking.
To pull off this effort, local authorities have earmarked $3.5 million that will be added to a similar megabuck figure funneled by the Act of Fiscal Stimulation.
Interval International, a leading global vacation exchange company, announced the appointment of Deborah Jaloma to the position of business development director in the Resort Sales and Service Department.