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What is Tourism 2.0?

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Tourism 2.0 is the evolution of Internet travel sites that have emerged with Web 2.0, the second generation of web services and communities that encourage participation and collaboration among users.

With 2.0 Tourism travel Web sites, portals, online destination guides, service providers and managers of reserves, which now has direct user interaction, which generates a unique value, through criticism, comment, suggestions to tourism products and services (airlines, hotels, tours, destinations, restaurants, etc..), sharing experiences through blogs, videos and photos, directly influencing the perception and decision of other users and “potential travelers. (more…)

Formalities at the airport in Santiago, Chile

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

The formalities at the airport in Santiago of Chile, is the most important thing to know before arriving at the airport in Santiago, Chile, to avoid any problems.  When you get to Santiago: All passengers must be checked through immigration and present their identification documents (either ID card or passport) and the visa stamped (depending on country of origin). Reciprocity tax for all passengers with a passport from Australia, Canada, the United States and Mexico must pay a reciprocity tax before making his entrance. The cost differs in the following countries: Australia $ 56 Canada U.S. $ 132 U.S. $ 131 Mexico $ 15. (more…)

Puerto Rico and the rum factory

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Bacardi excursion por jennifer_wilkinson.

It is not a museum and is perhaps not a typical tourist visit, but if you’re in Puerto Rico, you’re in one of the islands of Rum and precisely on the island which has the largest factory of the world. So if you want to change the architecture and landscape for a while, there’s nothing like a trip to the Bacardi rum factory. (more…)

La Paz - A high tourism in Bolivia

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The department of La Paz is located in northwestern Bolivia and has an area of 133,985 Km2. Its capital is the city of La Paz, seat of government and the highest capital in the world with 3640 meters Pando is bordered to the north, south to Oruro to Cochabamba and Beni east and west by the Republics of Chile and Peru.

La Paz is a department in very peculiar because it can find from stunning snow capped mountains, passing through beautiful valleys to tropical lowlands. This is due to their different ecological and marked: (more…)

Hobby or a holiday

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

If walking as a hobby or a holiday pursuit seems a little too pedestrian, by which I mean lacking in vitality, imagination, prosaic or dull,then perhaps I have the solution.

Walking, or hiking, as our American cousins like to say, has gone high tech. The Americans, driven by military objectives, developed the worlds first GPS, Global Positioning System. This technology allows you to accurately pinpoint your exact location within 1 metre anywhere in the world by communicating with satellites orbiting the planet. Many facets and uses of this technology have deadly implications with missiles directed to their targets by onboard GPS systems. (more…)

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