Best Museums of Latin America

Considered by travelers to be amongst the best attractions for getting a glimpse into the culture and history of a place, museums also are an excellent measure of the economic climate of an area, as they have far-reaching impact beyond their own walls and draw the “creative class” to a city. The 2012 Museum Index, and its sister report, the Theme Index

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Our Top 10 UNESCO Sites in Latin America

Author Mark Twain famously said, “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all of one’s lifetime.” Nowhere is this sentiment more true than cultural travel.Sure, it’s relaxing to sip a rum runner with your toes covered in white sand, and everyone needs some time to decompress and the fine art of doing nothing at all, but to really connect with humanity...

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Top 15 Carnival Celebrations in Latin America

You may think it’s too soon to start planning for Latin America’s 2016 Carnival season, but accommodations fill up quickly (sometimes more than a year in advance) around what’s widely considered to be the biggest party of the year across Central and South America. So much so, tourists often pay inordinate amounts of money to stay in a local home on little more than a cot surrounded by other tourists who were tardy to the party.

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VIP’s Top 10 Favorite Hotels for 2015

When we first launched VIP Tour Group 12 years ago, the availability of luxury properties across Latin America was somewhat limited to major tourist destinations and large cities with thriving business communities.Today, as we prepare to launch our new Central America offerings (coming later this summer), the VIP luxury travel segment is booming across both Central and South America offering unique experiences in breathtaking destinations with distinctive hotels...

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Top 10 Music Fests in Latin America

They say music is the universal language, and the surge of music festivals across the globe seems to confirm the age-old adage. More than ever before, people are traveling away from home to enjoy destination weekends with friends that hinge on these popular musical extravaganzas sometimes to locations they might never have considered otherwise. Today, according to industry trade mag Pollster...

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Top 10 Waterfalls in Central & South America

It wasn’t that long ago the World Cup swept through the world’s 5th largest country by population. Tourism in Brazil, the country that makes up 47 percent of the South American continent, already had been growing for some time due to its amazing beaches (including the best beach in the world, according to TripAdvisor),  high biodiversity (the country boasts more than 4 million plant and animal species)

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Brazil's Top 5 Boutique Hotels

It wasn’t that long ago the World Cup swept through the world’s 5th largest country by population. Tourism in Brazil, the country that makes up 47 percent of the South American continent, already had been growing for some time due to its amazing beaches (including the best beach in the world, according to TripAdvisor),  high biodiversity (the country boasts more than 4 million plant and animal species)

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Top 5 Luxury Galapagos Yachts & Ships

Last year, a dream getaway to the Galapagos Islands topped USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice awards for bucket list trips, and it’s easy to see why. Situated off the Ecuadorian coast in the Pacific Ocean, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is a unique “living museum and showcase of evolution” home to a wide array of marine and terrestrial wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.

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Apple Watch Promotion for Signature Travel Agents!

Now through the end of 2015, Signature Travel agents who book three trips valued at $10K each will earn a brand new Apple Watch Sport (MSRP $399) courtesy of VIP Tour Group! Following a whirlwind of buzz around the tech giant’s newest wearable, Apple isn’t releasing sales figures just yet. But, local stores tell us if you place your order today, you shouldn’t expect to receive your hip new wrist computer

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2016 Rio Summer Games Early-bird Packages

This 2016 Rio Summer Games customized land package includes 6 nights accommodations at the Caesar Park Hotel VIP Luxury Resort, or the affordable Royal Rio Palace Hotel or the 3-4 star Mirasol Copacabana. VIP Tours has designed some of the best trip experiences to Brazil and South America for the past 13 years, and now we enter into the greatest sporting event...

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45 Days Until the FIFA Brazil World Cup Brazil on 2014

VIP Tour Group's Salvador package offers the 3 best Group Stage games: Spain vs Netherlands, a replay of The 2010 World Cup final game, Germany vs Portugal, & Switzerland vs France.The largest single-sporting event in the world kicks off in Brazil on June 12, 2014. Twelve FIFA World Cup Host Cities will host 64 Matches. Be sure to check out our 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Match Schedule and find out more information about match-ups, game dates and times.

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Tips for Creating the Perfect South America Honeymoon

For women the world over, the South America honeymoon was immortalized in the Twilight trilogy’s third installment, Breaking Dawn. The good news is you don’t have to be a creepy, living dead guy who married someone 100 years younger than himself in order to give the woman you love a wonderful honeymoon.

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The 2014 Brazil World Cup Draw is finally out!

The United States will play Ghana, Portugal and Germany. The first-round group of death which includes The United States, Ghana, Portugal and Germany at next year's World Cup that will take the Americans on a lengthy 9,000-mile trip around Brazil. Making their seventh straight appearance at soccer's showcase, the Americans were drawn Friday into Group G and will open on June 16 in Natal against Ghana, which eliminated the Americans

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Neymar: Is Brazil Star the Next Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo Rolled Into One?

Brazil World Cup Spotlight: Agents learning about World Cup trending.Brazilian starlet Neymar has had to put up with the billing "the next Pele" almost since he made his debut for his country in 2010 in the unlikely surroundings of East Rutherford, New Jersey. Needless to say, the man born Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, scored and, in a country

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