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Interest in travel to the edge of the earth grows

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From year to year the number of people, which have already visited all the basic tourist directions, consider themselves to be skilled travelers and dream to see such places, which their neighbors or colleagues have hardly visited, increases. In this connection the Argentina city of Ushuaia, the most southern on our planet, experiences tourist boom. Only Antarctica lies further than Ushuaia. Interest to this region is caused by both: constant conversations on global warming and ice thawing and such films as “March of the Penguins" and "Surf’s up".

The basic tourist flow in the most distant corners of our earth consists of "baby-boomers" and ecotourists: they are in search of closeness to untouched nature in combination with physically active leisure. Researchers of Euromonitor International mark, that despite of desire to leave from the civilization as far as it is possible, travelers, undoubtedly solvent, prefer to stay at expensive hotels, to eat qualitative and refined food and to use comfortable transport. Up to 25 % of Argentine visitors stop in 4-stars and 5-stars hotels. Having caught this tendency, such hotel networks as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Hilton Hotel Corp and Carlson Companies intend to open their hotels in Ushuaia in the nearest three years.

Cruise tourism gains momentum in the region of South America and Antarctica. The routes of Royal Caribbean Cruises include distant cities of South America little by little. Carnival Cruise will start the first cruise around South America in 2009. Regent Seven Seas Cruise will start to sail to Antarctica from Ushuaia already in the end of 2007.

Americans - 52 %, British - 8 %, Canadians and Germans – by 4 % are among the tourists, who have reached the most southern point of Argentina in 2006. The increasing number of trips to the south of Argentina and to Antarctica in its turn stirs up the interest to the neighboring countries - Chile and Brazil.

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Article Submitted On: December 5, 2007