Los Cabos Tourism Board today announced a record six percent growth in domestic and international visitors year-to-date, an increase driven largely by the nation’s investment in dramatically improving safety and security over the last year. Los Cabos has defied national trends in driving a 90 percent reduction in violent crime since October of 2017, according…
In short, not a whole lot has changed at all. On August 22, the U.S. State Department’s travel advisory page for Mexico received an update and sparked a media frenzy. The new alert—which turned out to be a routine update—happened to coincide with news out of Quintana Roo, the Mexican state home to popular tourist spots like…
After Mexican officials discovered eight bodies in Cancun last week, the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory to the country. Not surprisingly, the incident has caused some travelers to reconsider vacationing on the Yucatán Peninsula. However, security experts and tourism officials say the area remains safe for foreign visitors. The incident took place in…
The U.S. State Department’s new travel advisory warning Americans about the risks of traveling to Cancún and Los Cabos should not be taken too seriously. Compared to some crime-ridden U.S. cities — or the deaths from recent U.S. mass shootings — these Mexican resorts look like safe havens. The Aug. 22 U.S. travel advisory added…
Meeting planners considering Mexico are increasingly challenged by travel advisories and the constant barrage of drug- related violence in the news, especially in Cancun. How safe is Mexico for meeting and incentive travel? The U.S. State Department has regularly been updating its travel advisory, giving some states within the country a Level 4, which indicates…
While Mexico’s international tourism continues to grow well beyond industry averages, a handful of U.S.-based airlines are reducing flights to the country, citing decreased demand. According to various media reports, United, Delta, American and Spirit have or will consider reducing flights from the United States to the beaches of the Mexican Caribbean. Executives for the…
It’s a question travel agents get all the time. Those of us in the travel media get it as well. Is it…safe? While the questions usually come from a place of curiosity and naiveté, the culture that engenders those questions is one of pervasive ignorance. It’s a culture that looks at anything other than the…
Quintana Roo’s lucrative tourist zones have been spared the worst in the United States Department of State’s updated travel advisory, issued this week. All of Mexico’s major tourism destinations have been deemed safe enough to visit. That includes Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Tulum and the Mayan Riviera. The Mexico Tourism Board noted that more…
The United States Department of State issued an update for its travel advisory to Mexico by deeming all major tourism destinations safe. The Mexico Tourism Board revealed that more than 40 of the country’s major international tourist destinations have no travel restrictions and exist in states where there are no special travel advisories for…
MAZATLAN — Mexico has jumped to the sixth most visited country in the world, Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto said at the Tianguis Turistico conference here, telling government officials, tourism executives and media that Mexico had climbed to No. 6 from the No. 8 spot in one year. Since 2013, Mexico has gone from 15th…