A luxury Japanese vessel, the Asuka II, left closed the 2011-2012 cruise season in Argentina’s capital, which again recorded a record of arrivals of travelers through this mode, adding 425 000 cruise passengers in the period, 22, 5% more than last year.

During the season ends so well, and according to a survey by the Entity of Tourism

of Buenos Aires, 19% of cruise passengers received were residents of Argentina, and 81% were foreign visitors. Of the foreigners, 49.9% came from neighboring countries and 26.1% from Europe, while otro14, 8% came from the United States and 6.4% ofother American countries.
An article in Clarin newspaper cited statements by Hernán Lombardi, president of the Ente Turismo and Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires, notes that these results in increasing in cruisers as landfalls are part of a global trend and should continue in future immediately.

In that sense, for the 2012-2013 season is estimated that landed in Buenos Aires about 500 thousand cruise passengers as they are already confirmed 168 recreational boat arrivals in the city.
Also highlight local tourist authorities that the cruise industry is a significant economic impact on the economy of Buenos Aires, because it generates a lot of movement and brings significant revenues from spending by cruise passengers.
In fact, the rise of this industry has been so strong in recent years in Buenos Aires that ledto that have attacked in 2011 an investment of over $ 25 million to remodel the terminal fully Quinquela Martin, specially devoted to this activity .

News: Politics

On the occasion, the Ministers of Tourism covering topics relating to the Tourism Promotion Office of Mercosur in Tokyo, Japan, its current situation, report and presentation of the Annual Assessment 2012 and 2011, the Tourism Promotion Fund the Mercosur, status and progress of Business Management of each of the member countries, the Joint Tourism Promotion in distant markets, Border Facilitation, Use ofFunds for the tourism sector FOCEM with Project Professional Qualification in Tourism,Integrated Circuits and Tourism Center Tourism Innovation Mercosur projectHomogenization Basin TSA, presentation of

progress and plans for project completion, Education and Tourism and International Cooperation Projects and Intra Mercosur asTourist Security, Program and signature SIGO Convention Argentina – Paraguay.
Finally, the ministers signed the minutes of the Eleventh Meeting of Tourism Ministers of Mercosur.
On the other hand, on Tuesday May 8, will be performed LIV Tourism Special Meeting of Mercosur, at the Palacio San Martín, where technicians of ministries discussed severalcommon issues and the integration of other countries. Then proceed to the signing of the Act LIV Tourism Special Meeting of Mercosur.

Internet Explorer remains the most widely used worldwide, but closely follows the Google browser. Firefox wins in Europe and Africa, but its future is uncertain.

War of the Browsers is ticking. And the last soldier to appear in this contest, Chrome, continues to increase its market share in South America and has undisputed first place: 48% percent of users in the region use the Internet through the Google browser.

According to figures released by Pingdom, Chrome takes him 20 percentage

points to the second most used browser: Internet Explorer, which accounted for 28.9 percent, followed by Mozilla Firefox, adopted by the 20.8 percent of American Internet users.

Pingdom recorded data provided by StatCounter, a web site that displays statistics on the use of the Web, during the first three weeks of April. And it shows that Google’s browser lacks little to attain the world title. Internet Explorer continues to lead across the globe with 34 percent market share, followed closely by Chrome, with 31.2 percent and Firefox, with 25%. The top-five is completed by Safari (7.1%) and Opera (1.7%).

Chrome is also the most widely used in Asia, with 36.4 percent. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer is king in North America, with 40.4 percent of users, and Oceania, with 35.5 percent.

Meanwhile, Firefox leads the European continent with 30.6 percent, but there is a · dead heat “with Internet Explorer (29.2%) and Chrome (29.1%). Also prevails in Africa, where the Microsoft browser accounts for 39.5 percent of users. Something to criticize the study: it is unclear if Central America is in North or South, or if it was not contemplated.

In the world ranking of versions, the first place is for Chrome 18,

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According to Pingdom, Google has been successful in keeping users up to date, thanks to automatic updates and “silent”, which resulted in a lower dispersion of the versions. This can be seen in the fact that Chrome 17 has 10 times less users that Chrome 18. Instead, Internet Explorer displays more fragmentation.

The site also indicates that the iPhone is becoming increasingly used to navigate and therefore the desktop version of Safari is just ahead of its release for tablets. The iPad generated greater impact in Oceania, North America and Europe.

In conclusion, he warns that the glory days of Internet Explorer have done and will continue losing market share, while Chrome gained more market share. On the future of Firefox, indicates that it is uncertain, because much of the historic market gained Chrome users were “Zorrito”. Will have to see who wins the upcoming battles of the War of the Browsers, which promises to add more pepper in each contest.