Brazil is South America’s biggest country, so it’s no surprise that it also has the most air traffic. This also means when things go wrong, the snowball gets a lot bigger before it melts. Thousands of passengers were stranded after hundreds of flights were canceled over four days leading up to 6 o’clock p.m. on  Continue Reading »

If you were planning on visiting the large glacier lake in the Magallanes region of Patagonia in southern Chile, you may have to revise your travel plans. Between March and May this year, the entire lake has mysteriously disappeared. Fed by the water of melting glaciers, the lake was about the size of 10 soccer  Continue Reading »

Argentina is a country with many diverse underground cave networks. There are many creatures that call these caves home such as bats, spiders, various insects and also fauna. They are able to survive due to very specific environmental conditions. The stalagmites that are found here take over 1000 years to grow just one centimeter and  Continue Reading »

American Airlines recently announced that it would increase the number of flights it offers between Miami and Colombia. Now the airline is saying that it will also add flights to it’s route between Miami and Montevideo, Uruguay. Currently flights between Miami and Montevideo are seasonal, however with the new flights, American Airlines will soon offer  Continue Reading »

Joining a chorus of warnings around the world about climate change threats is a caution that it will inevitably affect tourism as well. This is according to Dr David Viner from the East Anglia University, who pointed out recently in Travel Weekly that many of Britain’s most popular holiday spots are in danger of becoming  Continue Reading »

This internationally known chain is planning an ambitious expansion programme to meet the demands of growing tourism worldwide with plans currently underway for more than 700 hotels. More are planned over then next 10 years, with 1000 new hotels expected to open in North America alone. This is expected to add a further 110,000 rooms  Continue Reading »

The results of a first-ever survey of the world’s UNESCO world heritage sites has ranked the Kathmandu valley – which boasts three sites – in last place among the 94 most important of some 800 sites worldwide. Undertaken by National Geographic Traveler magazine, the survey called on travel experts from around the world to assess  Continue Reading »