Ecuador to sell a part of Amazon rainforest
Ecuador is hatching a plan to auction off 3 million of the nations’ 8.1 million hectares of the lovely Amazonian rainforest to oil companies of China, suggested new reports.
The new report comes as oil pollution drove neighboring Peru to announce an environmental state of emergency in their north Amazon rainforest region.
Ecuador Tourism 'investing' US$ 3.8 million on a Superbowl commercial
Well, it was hot just Katy Perry who was the headline performer at the Super Bowl this Sunday. There was another ’one.’ It is a little South American country – Ecuador.
In the midst of all the advertisements of potato chips, beer, or GoDaddys, Ecuador would make history by becoming the very first foreign nation to have a tourism advertisement during Super Bowl.
The thirty second advertisement would be to the tune of All You Need Is Love, the popular tune by The Beatles, as it is part of a greater ‘All You Need Is Ecuador’ campaign targeted at American tourists.
Ecuador getting the results of travel funding boost
A 10-fold step-up on government expenditure on tourism is serving Ecuador to rebalance their economy away from oil.
In recent past, the nation has channeled more finances in the tourism sector, serving to boost the numbers by 15 percent this year.
Ecuador’s minister of tourism Sandra Naranjo told that they are seeing the result as well as it is also the result of a whole lot of effort from government. For example, in the year 2006, before this government came in the amount of investment in tourism was approximately US$ 6 million now it is around US$60 million.
Thailand may put wristbands on international visitors, reports
The tourism minister of Thailand has stated that they would hand over wristbands to tourists after the murder of two Brit backpackers this month which has raised new concerns regarding tourist safety. Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul, the Tourism and Sports Minister, told that she had asked hotels over the whole idea of distributing wristbands to serve identify tourists that gets into trouble or lost.
Quito all set to welcome top sporting elites
Quito has confirmed that it would arrange two huge international sports events over the next few months. With the purpose of becoming an address city in terms of event management, the Ecuador capital would be home for PGA Latin American Tour later in September as well as for ATP 250 Tournament in January, 2015.
Thomas Cook India collaborates with the Allpoint Network to offer access to surcharge free ATMs across the world
Thomas Cook India has declared a strategic deal with Allpoint Network, which is an affiliate of Cardtronics, through their Borderless Prepaid Card, offering all the Indian travelers access to more than forty three thousand surcharge-free ATMs in the United States as well as around fifty five thousand across the world.
It is an initiative to purchase the developing potential of prepaid card market. Now, Thomas Cook India becomes the very first card issuer in India to provide its cardholders surcharge-free ATM use when travelling across the world via Allpoint ATM Network.
South Africans splashing out huge in Brazil
Bafana Bafana - the South African football team may not have qualified for this year’s World Cup in Brazil, but this has not stopped the South African fans from spending money at this world class event. As per Visa’s Everywhere Travel Report, approximately R1.7 million was splashed by the South Africans with Visa cards during the tournament’s 4 day opening period, in Brazil, from 12th June to 15th June. This is 174% more than this time previous year.
Students of Christian Central Academys Dominican Republic visit
Christian Central Academys twenty four seniors raised thousands and thousands of dollars to pay to go on a mercy mission to Dominican Republic. The students found hope in the midst of pain and poverty. Allison Balk told that in Buffalo, they see poor people, but she has never seen poverty as bad as it is over there. Their kids do not have food. They almost has nothing, still they are very happy.
Brandon Gonzalez stated that the week in the Caribbean was quite special. They just have one bed, and there is a bunch of kids like twelve kids in one bed, sharing, yet smiling.
Educators goes to Ecuador
One director and 8 instructors met in the Bluemont Hall to finish training before starting their tour to Yachay in Ecuador from 10th March to 14th March. The group was employed to teach for 1 year with K-State Center of Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy’s Project Reach, or popularly known as CIMA.
It is one of the very 1st programs of this type with an advanced paperless event, a new university at the group’s fingertips, as the academic top 5% of students in the region ready for their 1st day at Yachay Language Institute.
South America to promote tourism collectively
Vinicio Alvarado, the Ecuador's minister of tourism, has suggested the introduction of a South American tourism brand that would advertise the region on a worldwide scale. The minister introduced the suggestion during a meeting previous week in Brazil with Gastao Vieira, Brazil's minister of tourism.
In a statement, Vinicio Alvarado stated that with rising interest in South America from tourists across the world, collaborative promotional programs would offer huge benefits to both travelers and destinations.
