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Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s Nature Air claims to be the world’s first zero-emission airline. Of course it is cheating a little – explaining that emissions from its aircraft are offset by the carbon-absorbing properties of the trees it is helping to plant. Well, yes. NA is due to launch flights this December to Limon, located on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast - from the capital, San Jose, and from Bocas del Toro, on Panama’s Caribbean coast.Since its launch in 2000, Nature Air has grown from 18,000 passengers annually to over 100,000 in 2005. It has seven aircraft, and operates 74 flights daily to 17 destinations in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Peru
Peru Rutas del Peru, tour operator, is promoting ‘fair trade in tourism’ on its new itineraries, which include stays at the Chaparri Ecolodge, located in Peru’s first community reserve in the coastal dry forest. Electrical power and hot water are generated from solar panels and all excursions/activities benefit from the presence of eco-educational guides. As far as possible, all services are sourced from the local community and a percentage of profits are donated for social and conservation projects. Its rates include a tree-planting fee.

Florida
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Mexico
More flights for Mexico. Visitor arrivals in Mexico increased 6% to 22mn in 2005, but early figures for this year showed a decline. The country’s tourism office is hoping that more flights – particularly from its main sources in the rest of North America, Canada and the US – will result in growth.
World Wildlife Fund in Canada has teamed up with Canadian tour operator Horizon - which specialises in luxury travel - to develop a formal travel programme for donors and others interested in travel experiences that would bring them closer to nature and the work of the WWF. The proposed line-up for 2007 includes the Arctic, Newfoundland, and British Columbia in Canada, and internationally to Cuba and Mexico.

New airports in Ecuador
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Chile
Chile’s Antarctic Dream is running Patagonian and Antarctic expeditions from Punta Arenas and Ushuaia. Its 78-person ship has been remodelled to provide outdoor cabins, two observation decks (front and back), meeting room, passenger’s open bridge, sauna, gym, library, panoramic view dining room, and health clinic.

Brazil
Amazon Nature Tours, a Brazil based tour operator, has launched Expedition Cruises. This is a 7-day cruise within a new reserve in the centre of the Amazon - created by the Institute for the Environment by combining smaller ones. It is large enough to preserve the biological diversity of this still-undeveloped part of the Amazon.  Customers will explore the rainforest on foot and from the ship’s launches to discover plants and animals, as well as navigating in unmapped territory. Groups of up to 18 will be led by naturalist guides.

  • ARGENTINA Argentina is situated in South America, east of the Andes, and is bordered by Chile to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil to the north and northeast....
  • BELIZE Belize is situated at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America and borders Mexico and Guatemala, with the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country’s area includes numerous small...
  • BOLIVIA Bolivia is a landlocked country bordered by Peru to the northwest, Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south and Chile to the west. There are three main areas:...
  • BRAZIL Brazil Image courtesy of Roger de la Harpe www.africaimagery.com Brazil covers almost half of the South American continent and it is bordered to the north, west and south by all South American...
  • CANADA Canada is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the northeast by Greenland, and to the south by the ‘Lower 48’ of the USA. The polar...
  • CHILE With its extreme nature, the multitude of opportunities that it offers for adventure tourism and the fact that it is a modern and safe country -  socially, politically and economically stable...
  • COSTA RICA Costa Rica, lying between Nicaragua and Panama, is a complete coast-to-coast segment of the Central American isthmus. Its width ranges from 119km to 282km (74 to 176 miles). A low thin line of hills,...
  • ECUADOR Ecuador is bordered to the north by Colombia, to the east and south by Peru, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. There are three distinct zones: the Sierra or uplands of the Andes, running from the...
  • GUATEMALA Guatemala is located in Central America and shares borders to the north and west with Mexico, to the southeast with El Salvador and Honduras, to the northeast with Belize and the Caribbean sea and to...
  • GUYANA Guyana lies in the northeast of South America, bordered by Venezuela to the west, Surinam to the southeast and Brazil to the south. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The...
  • HONDURAS Honduras shares borders in the southeast with Nicaragua, in the west with Guatemala, and in the southwest with El Salvador. To the north lies the Caribbean and to the south the Pacific Ocean. The...
  • MEXICO Mexico is at the southern extremity of North America and is bordered to the north by the USA, northwest by the Gulf of California, west by the Pacific, south by Guatemala and Belize, and east by the...
  • NICARAGUA Nicaragua borders Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. To the east lies the Caribbean, and to the west the Pacific. In the north are the Isabella Mountains, while the country’s...
  • PANAMA Panama forms the land link between the North and South American continents. Panama borders Colombia to the east, Costa Rica to the west, and the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean to the north and...
  • PERU Peru is a large, mountainous country on the Pacific coast of South America. It has borders with Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and Chile to the south. The Pacific...
  • PARAGUAY
  • URUGUAY Uruguay is bordered to the north by Brazil, to the southeast by the Atlantic, and is separated from Argentina in the west and south by the River Uruguay, which widens out into the Rio de la Plata...
  • USA Covering a large part of the North American continent, the USA shares borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south and has coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans, the Caribbean...
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