Posted on December 9th, 2011 by admin
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  Tourist traffic to Mexico has risen sharply in the past 12 months according to a new report from Visa and travel website Expedia.   “Hotels.com (which is owned by Expedia) reported that bookings have increased by 25% in the past year,” says the report and credit card operator Visa has revealed that “people spent [...]

Posted on June 1st, 2011 by admin
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico received $4.78 billion in foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the first quarter, a figure that was up 10.5 percent from the same period in 2010, when the country received $4.33 billion, the Economy Secretariat said. The FDI figure was up by more than $2 billion, compared to the fourth quarter [...]

Posted on May 26th, 2011 by admin
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(Reuters) – Mexico has launched an ad campaign to counter its image as a dangerous country and the negative impact on its vital tourist industry of U.S. travel alerts warning Americans of violence south of the border. “Those travel alerts that were headlining ‘If you want to stay alive, don’t travel to Mexico,’ we felt [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2011 by admin
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Editor’s Note: Robert Reid is Lonely Planet’s New York-based U.S. travel editor and host of the 76-Second Travel Show. New York (CNN) — Mexico tourism is having a bit of a PR problem lately. Reports of mass grave sites, daylight shootings and carjackings from the escalating drug war don’t exactly build confidence for a family [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2011 by admin
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Top 25 Destinations in the Caribbean & Mexico via TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Destinations Awards – Top 25 – Caribbean & Mexico.

Posted on May 7th, 2011 by admin
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In an interview with Reuters, Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens said despite recent bumps on the road for U.S. economic expansion, the sector that matters most for Mexico — factory production — is holding up rather well. “Even though I acknowledge that there have been some mixed figures about the U.S. economy, we still are [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2011 by admin
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By Patrick Osio Here comes Easter break again and young people will be young people – high school and college kids will travel to distant places where the drinking age is either less than it is in the U.S. or where authorities don’t care to enforce minors’ drinking laws. For several decades Mexico has been [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2011 by admin
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By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK | Mon Jan 3, 2011 8:07am EST (Reuters) – Foreign investors overwhelmingly ranked the U.S. commercial real estate market as their No. 1 choice for investment this year and viewed it as the best opportunity for price appreciation, according to a survey of foreign real estate investors. When ranked among [...]

Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by admin
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By IVAN MORENO MEXICO CITY Mexico is experiencing its bloodiest year of drug violence yet, but that’s not stopping domestic and international vacationers alike from flocking to Cancun. The resort city on the Mexican Caribbean coast, the Riviera Maya coastline below it and the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta will be named top destinations [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2010 by admin
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