2009 May

Buenos Aires is the New York of South America. It has that big city feeling, wonderful arquitecture and plenty of excellent restaurants, food and wine. And Argentina is the worlds second cheapest tourist destination after South Africa. Or what about a 20 minute taxi ride for 3 $? Or a three course meal with excellent wine for 30 $?

Tango is very alive in Buenos Aires. There’s tango schools, tango performances, tango shows and tango on the streets. You can also learn tango as a foreigner and tango tourism is growing.

And beeing located in the Southern Hemisphere it also have an added bonus: when it’s as coldest in Europe and North America, it’s the height of summer in Buenos Aires.

Checkin Apartments is offering great apartments in the city to competative prices.

Sweden beats the US in creativity and is the most creative place in Europe, a new report by international researchers has found.

The study, conducted by Professor Richard Florida of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, finds that Nordic countries are challenging the economic power of the US and “old Europe”, and could become talent magnets for innovative immigrants. Sweden came first in the list of creative countries, followed by Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Nordic countries have the potential to attract the worlds most talented workers, giving them a competitive edge and eventually spurring stronger growth, the report says.

“The key to competition in the future is who can attract creative people on a global scale,” Professor Florida told the FT.

The report measures the countries on “the three T:s” of economic growth: Talent, Technology and Tolerance. These factors indicate a country’s creative potential and bear a strong correlation to economic growth, say the authors