Colombia preparing tropical paradise for tourism after 500 years of chaos
Colombia Reports | Travel
by Adriaan Alsema
1y ago
Colombia’s government is trying to promote responsible tourism on the “Rosario Islands” national park after 500 years of colonial and illegal occupation. The country’s National Parks authority is carefully trying to promote sustainable tourism to the Caribbean archipelago’s 27 islands while the National Land Agency is trying to end the islands’ 500-year-history of illegal occupation. At the same time, the Environment Ministry has been trying to repair the damage done to the Rosario Islands’ unique underwater ecosystem and its coral reefs in particular. Colombia suspends ‘most important proje ..read more
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Colombia recommends stricter COVID-19 measures for air travelers
Colombia Reports | Travel
by Adriaan Alsema
3y ago
Colombia’s health ministry recommended incoming travelers to adopt stricter measures to prevent importing new and more infectious coronavirus strains. Health Minister Fernando Ruiz initially resisted stricter conditions, but changed his mind amid growing concerns over new strains from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil that could reduce the effectiveness of vaccines. The health ministry’s chief epidemiologist, Julian Fernando Niño, said the minister issued a decree in which it, among other things “recommends, not obliges” the use of special N-95 facemasks for travelers older than 60 ..read more
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Colombia’s slowly restarting international air travel
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by Adriaan Alsema
3y ago
Six weeks after Colombia’s government lifted a ban on air travel, flights are resuming slowly and not without controversy. According to civil aviation authority Aerocivil, it has been able to reestablish some flights to European cities like London, Madrid and Istanbul since the Health Ministry lifted a ban on international air travel in mid-September. Flights to Newark, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale in the US before the end of the month, according to Aerocivil. Additionally, Aerocivil said in a press release that it has made agreements with 69 countries to resume flights. Rather than asking c ..read more
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Flights between Colombia and US resumed
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by Adriaan Alsema
3y ago
Colombia’s El Dorado airport in Bogota resumed limited operations on Monday with flight to, among others, the United States. Bogota’s airport is one of four airports that will be handling international flights following strict biosafety measures to prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus that forced President Ivan Duque to suspend all international travel in March. The city of Miami in Florida on Saturday welcomed the first flight that had traveled from Medellin via Cartagena. The airport of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, also resumed flights, but only to the authorized destinations. Apart ..read more
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Colombia to gradually resume international air travel; how and when still uncertain
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by Adriaan Alsema
3y ago
Colombia’s health ministry has authorized the gradual resumption of international flights that were closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported Wednesday. When and which international flights that were suspended on March 23 will resume is still uncertain as the civil aviation authority Aerocivil is negotiating with aviation authorities in other countries about conditions and restrictions. According to newspaper El Tiempo, the aviation industry asked Aerocivil to prioritize the United States, Chile, Panama Ecuador and Spain that have traditionally been the top origin cou ..read more
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Colombia hopes to have international air traffic normalized by November
Colombia Reports | Travel
by Adriaan Alsema
3y ago
Colombia’s aviation authority is planning to have international flights normalized in November, according to Blu Radio. Transport Minister Angela Maria Orozco said in May that she planned to begin reopening international air traffi on September 1. Blu Radio received the reopening schedule of aviation authority Aerocivil, which said that the initial phase would allow “opening of general aviation and business” as part of “pilot plans” that include the creation of “secure health corridors.” Tourists not traveling until November The normalization of flights for “tourism and visitors” would not be ..read more
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Colombia to extend international air travel ban until August 31
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by Adriaan Alsema
4y ago
Colombia plans to extend its international air travel ban until the end of the current health emergency on August 31, the country’s transport minister said Wednesday. Transport Minister Angela Maria Orozco made the announcement days after President Ivan Duque discarded reopening the country’s international airports “on the short term.” Colombia discards international flights ‘in the short term’ amid doubts about restarting economy Whether international air travel will be reestablished after that date depends on whether the government lifts the health emergency in place to deal with the corona ..read more
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Coronavirus: Colombia to isolate incoming visitors from China, Italy, Spain and France
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by Adriaan Alsema
4y ago
Colombia’s authorities said they will isolate all incoming visitors from China, Italy, Spain and France as a measure to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus. The Health Ministry decided to deviate from the original protocol after the confirmation of three more infections in the country’s second largest city Medellin surprised authorities. One American tourist who was quarantined in Cartagena where she arrived on a cruise ship is the ninth confirmed patient. President Ivan Duque said on Twitter that “the preventive isolation of people coming from these countries is to protect public healt ..read more
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Colombia grants popular Parque Tayrona three vacations a year
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by Adriaan Alsema
4y ago
Parque Tayrona, one of Colombia’s most popular beach destinations, will be closed for three periods a year to allow its protected ecosystem to recover from damage caused by tourism. Until this year, the country’s national parks authority park closed the park in February to “give a rest to the ecosystem of the protected area.” The park is home of some of Colombia’s most beautiful beaches and the Lost City, one of Colombia’s most famous archaeological sites. Colombia’s extraordinary Lost City In a press release, the national parks territory said that it will close the park more often after c ..read more
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The ever-changing religious significance of Bogota’s Monserrate hill
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by Adriaan Alsema
4y ago
Bogota’s Monserrate church is located on a site that is as sacred now as it was centuries before Spanish conquistadors invaded the heartland of the Muisca people. While currently a pilgrimage site for Catholics, the Muiscas revered the Monserrate hill because it’s where the sun rises during the summer solstice when observed from what is now Bolivar Square. The square that is now the center of Colombia’s politics was a sacred site from where the former inhabitants of Bogota where they were able to link solstices and equinoxes with specific sites located on hills in the east. The Monserrate hil ..read more
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