Although tourism is expanding, most tourists pass through Porvenir, or use their services as a stopover on their way further south. There are several hotels, internet cafes, restaurants, and a gas station. A small grocery store is located near the base of the Chilean Army at the top level of the city. Access is by ferry or plane from Punta Arenas or road from the Argentine side of the island. All ferries across the Strait of Magellan are in charge of Austral Broom , a Chilean company. A service runs once a day, except Monday from the port near Punta Arenas and reaches the Bay Ferry Terminal Chilota about 5 km from the town of Porvenir, opposite the Port of Tierra del Fuego. This trip is highly recommended, especially for bird watchers who come in large numbers to see this wonderful show on the narrow, being also possible to see dolphins also called dolphins, and occasionally penguins and whales . The other service is taking place at the north end of the island and extends from Punta Delgada to Bahia Azul.
The southern part of the province has several lakes and rivers suitable for fishing.
They are tourist spots to visit on excursions that can be hired in town for the day: the colony of King Penguins , a distance of 114 kilometers from the city, the colony of Magellanic Penguin located in the town of Puerto Yartou , the legendary Cordillera Darwin , 200 kilometers from the city, the Park Karukinka located in the south of the island of Tierra del Fuego , the Aldea Tierra del Fuego . In the same city will recommend making bird watching, especially Flemish , shag rocks and plover endangered species that lives in Laguna Verde, visit the Laguna de la Sal lake located at the northern end of the city where the October 19, 1978 there was a mass sighting of UFOs, the house of war criminal Nazi Walter Rauff , the Museo Fernando Cordero Rusque where a mummy whose ethnicity has not been determined, the memorial of political executions and the first cinema in South
