Description
Added on the 03/09/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Mulegé, Mar 1 (EFE).- The pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to the whale-watching business in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur, with the most recent season suffering an 85 percent drop in the number of visitors."This year has been catastrophic for (that sector's) finances, and whale-related activities aren't generating (sufficient) income. In some cases, it's only enough to pay staff, which has already been reduced by 50 percent," Enrique Achoy, a tourism entrepreneur, told Efe on Monday.Baja California Sur each year welcomes around 3,000 whales, and more than 1,500 of these giant cetaceans are born in its waters; the latest whale-watching season began in November 2020 and will end early this month. (Camera: MAHATMA FONG).SHOT LIST: TOURISTS GO ON A WHALE-WATCHING TRIP IN MULEGÉ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO. SOUND BITE: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF TOURISM IN MUNICIPALITY OF MULEGÉ, ANTONIO COTA.TRANSLATION: They have taken actions but it is something that we cannot control. The only way for us to control and to have a good and healthy tourism in this region is (to wait for) the vaccines to arrive and be inoculated as they should be.
Madrid, Jan 31 (EFE).- (Camera: EFE) Some of the most touristic municipalities in the Community of Madrid register in this third wave a greater number of infections.FOOTAGE OF NAVACERRADA, MADRID, SPAIN.
Fresh rioting breaks out late Saturday over the Dutch government's coronavirus measures, with rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police, and setting fire to bicycles as protests turn violent for a second night in the Netherlands. IMAGES
People wait in long lines in El Paso, Texas to enter the United States after it reopened its land and air borders to foreign visitors fully vaccinated against Covid-19, ending 20 months of restrictions on travel from around the globe. IMAGES
Santo Domingo, Oct 10 (EFE).- The Minister of Tourism of Dominican Republic announced Sunday that the arrivals of tourists exceeded the pre-pandemic levels for the first time, a milestone that secured the recovery of the main economic sector of the Caribbean nation.Not only was September's figure 14 percent higher than the same month in 2019, but it was also an all-time record for the country, surpassing by 0.5 percent the figure recorded in 2018, the once highest record in the country’s history. (Camera: ORLANDO BARRÍA). SHOTLIST: AERIAL SHOTS OF THE BEACHES IN BOCA CHICA BEACH, SANTO DOMINGO, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
