Topic - Current Affairs

2009 has been a tough year for the world’s tourism markets.
Depending on whose figures are to be believed, we could determine that global flight passenger numbers are down between fifteen and twenty per cent; hotel bookings are down at least fourteen per cent, and so we may deduce that the support industries which surround these […]

In 2006, Mexico’s Congress passed a law that decreed three important public holidays should be observed on the third Monday of the month in which they pass, instead of being observed on their historical date.  One of these three includes Dia de la Revolucion that, instead of being observed on November 20th, would be observed […]

In addition to following Mexperience online, via our Blogs and our monthly Mexico Newsletter, readers and members can now also follow Mexperience on Twitter.
Twitter is a social and business networking facility that enables people to broadcast short messages. Anyone ‘following’ those messages receives an instant notification when they are published and may link to further […]

Following months of research, planning and development work, we have today launched a major upgrade to Mexperience.com.  The upgrade is part of our planned investment program that has created – and continues to develop – the world’s leading website about travel, living & lifestyle and real estate in Mexico.
The upgrade retains all of the key […]

Mexico will turn its clocks back by one hour this coming weekend, ending its spring and summer engagement with Daylight Saving Time.
Officially, the clocks in Mexico will be turned back by one hour at precisely 0200 (2am) on Sunday, October 25th.  Europe too, will turn its clocks back by one hour on this date, but […]

2009 has been a relatively quiet year for hurricanes near Mexico.  Technically, the ‘hurricane season’ starts as early as June, although most hurricanes don’t brew until August and September, when the region’s summer temperatures reach their peak.
Hurricane Jimena, headed towards Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, is currently rated as a ‘Category 4′ storm — powerful enough […]

Two key barometric measures may be employed to gauge the economic health of a nation’s tourism industry, notwithstanding any official figures published by a Ministry of Tourism: flight passenger numbers and the proliferation and depth of hotel discounts.
Worldwide, airline passenger volumes are down between fifteen and twenty per cent, when compared to the same period […]

Low-cost Mexican airline, Aviacsa, resumed its flights yesterday, ending a four-day hiatus that began when the Mexican government grounded twenty-five of its twenty-six air ships last week; an order which had left the airline effectively closed for business.   On Saturday June 6, a judge struck-down the grounding order imposed upon the company by the Ministry of Communications and Transport and Aviacsa started flying again.
The airline’s management […]

Key suppliers in Mexico’s tourism industry – particularly hotels and resorts – are playing an important role in attracting visitors back to the country following the A-H1N1 flu outbreak in April this year.
Rates at hotels and resorts across Mexico – including those at some of the world’s most sought-after beach destinations and some the country’s most […]

The News, Mexico’s only English-language newspaper, resurfaced in October 2007, five years after going out of print.  Last week, less than two years after the title’s renaissance, the owners pulled out and closed down the offices.
The News was originally published by the O’Farrill family in 1950 and, in its heyday, was one of Mexico’s most successful publications, long before […]