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The Visit USA Committee in conjunction with the commercial and consular of the United States Embassy in Peru held on Friday 16 April, the Workshop "Lima Visit USA" in order to present the best deals to destinations within the United States through the leading local suppliers and representatives of the tourist offices in Lima.

The eighteenth edition of this event was primarily aimed at travel agents. Among the destinations promoted states are Florida, California, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Alaska, among others.

This time NASA plans to open an office in the Kennedy Space Center to oversee the development of commercial space taxis so that astronauts can go to and from the International Space Station. This business initiative will cost 5.8 billion dollars over the next 5 years.

According to information from USA Today, the space center will help manage my 6 billion in its flagship program to develop new technologies in space habitats and orbital stations. The budget proposed by President Obama will provide a U.S. $ 4 billion extra to the Kennedy Space Center during 2015.

For today, 7 December, will the public presentation of the first ship specially designed SpaceShipTwo space tourism, which introduced the British billionaire Richard Brenson, owner of Virgin Galactic group (VG).

The event is scored VG as world premiere and it augurs a new era in aerospace history, performed in one particular cosmodrome located in a desert of California, USA. Under an expected era of space tourism will begin in 2011.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- With 79 votes to 19, the U.S. Senate recently passed a bill to launch a campaign to promote foreign tourism in the United States, to be funded with part of the $ 10 fee required of aliens entering the United States under a program that exempts visas for temporary stays.

The figures for this sector reported that the expense of about four thousand dollars for U.S. visitors last year reported sales of 1.38 trillion dollars and meant 8.6 million jobs.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the second annual World Congress on Medical Tourism and Global Health this year will be held from 26 to 28 October in Los Angeles and host health ministers from nearly 60 countries, 200 expert speakers and about two thousand visitors.

Assistance is needed to reach a record number of visitors, among whom were employed, health plans own funds, insurance companies, governments and medical tourism assistants around the world, with the goal of partnering with international hospitals.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The official site for travel and tourism U.S. DiscoverAmerica. com, is celebrating its first anniversary of providing information about 50 states, 31 tourist destinations and five territories of this country in five different languages. The website will increase the reception by having travel advice and information contained in each of the destinations.

In this regard, the international vice president of sales USTravel Association (TIA), Luiz Demoura, announced that the page will have a new tool: who are the travel packages to the U.S. that can be booked online.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The winners of a contest organized by the magazine "National Geographic Kids" came to Peru to learn about the wonders of the Costa, Sierra y Selva del Peru is 15 children between 9 and 14 years and two teachers who came from United States after winning a competition for creativity in the "Hands-On Explorer Challenge 2008-2009" which brought together more than two thousand children and 70 teachers.

The prize was a trip to Peru, which was chosen for its diversity and because tourism has one of the new wonders of the world: Machu Picchu. The first day this group of visitors arrived in Lima, the capital city, where the first stop was the Museo Larco, then visited Larcomar to buy souvenirs and especially see the sea, which for many was a real discovery.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- Despite the U.S. decision not to release the Israeli visa requirements to enter this country, the rate of growth of tourism in Israel is expected to be 2.5 times the rate of growth of tourism to United States. Israel ranks 18 in list of countries exporting tourism to the U.S. and is expected to reach 16 by 2013 instead.

According to data provided by the travel and tourism department of the American Chamber of Commerce, 2008, 332 thousand Israelis came to the U.S., which marked a record high and an increase from the year 2007. The department published its forecasts for the years 2009-2013, which is expected to fall by 2% in the Israeli entry because of the economic crisis.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The tourism industry of United States opened yesterday the exhibition "International Pow Wow" in order to attract more foreign tourists, for that purpose prepared seductive offers package tours, as this event is considered the largest international gathering of industry Travel in United States, takes place in Miami where he attended more than 70 countries to negotiate the offerings of the major tourist destinations in this country and to be made until May 20.

Among those attending the event are representatives from Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, India, Russia, Switzerland and United Kingdom. The Association of Travel United States, has sponsored the show for the past four decades, it is estimated that the show will generate more than 3 thousand 500 million dollars to the tourism sector, while the Miami County economy will benefit from more $ 8.5 million as host of this event.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- According to data released on Monday May 11 by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Spain ceased to be the second favorite tourist destination by 2008. United States, leads to 58.03 million visitors receive 3.6% more than that Spain received 57.31 million tourists.

The Secretary General of the UN agency, Taleb Rifai, said that the two regions most affected by the crisis in the tourism sector are the European and the Mediterranean and Spain is found in both, so that France also suffered a decline in entries of 3.2%, while maintaining its leadership with 79.3 million visitors.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The regional president of the Peruvian Amazon region, Oscar Altamirano, reported that U.S. businessmen will invest about 400 million dollars in national infrastructure projects and tourism, one of the regions benefited from the Amazon, which works to advance performs in the Peruvian tourist attractions such as the fortress of Kuelap.

Mintzer Group, the company is bringing together a group of investors who bet on Peru, the projects must be geared to the infrastructure sector, such as home improvement, reforestation, conservation of the cable car and historical monument.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- During the upcoming swearing of the new U.S. president, there is much interest around the world to know the details, so that Washington has been finalizing preparations for the swearing, which was attended by more than an estimated one million people, to this end the U.S. capital to receive millions of visitors from around the world who do not want to lose the assumption of Barack Obama as the first black president who has the United States.