Mexico Insight

Mexperience readers of old will know that we have always encouraged them to bring their foreign currency and exchange it in Mexico, as the deals on offer here provide much better value than exchanging currency over the counter in the USA, Canada and Europe.
Mexico City’s international airport has, forever it seems, been the country’s ‘bellwether’ […]

Travelers planning a vacation or business trip to Mexico will benefit from deep discounts on hotel nights starting now, as hoteliers embark upon an aggressive price-cutting period to encourage visitors to return.  Taking cues from the size of discount being offered, the country’s hotel industry is quite serious about encouraging tourists back to Mexico.
In what is undoubtedly the […]

Today, May 16, the United States and Britain lifted the travel warnings, which previously advised their citizens against traveling to Mexico.
Both countries issued travel advisories on April 27, telling their citizens to avoid ‘all but essential travel to Mexico’.  The warnings immediately set-off an avalanche of business and leisure trip cancellations, and forced tour companies, […]

It’s no suprise that the people who have found themselves particularly disadvantaged by Mexico’s recent flu outbreak are the millions of hard-working Mexicans serving the country’s tourism industry.
Hotels, restaurants and local tour operators are among those businesses that have been heavily bruised by an unprecedented downturn in visitor numbers to Mexico, and the millions of Mexican families who depend directly […]

In a press conference given earlier today, Mexico’s Health Minister, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, stated that the key Mexican resort areas of Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel, Mazatlan, San Jose del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas and Zihuatanejo have not reported a single case of the A-H1N1 flu virus.
Notwithstanding this, these areas, along with most of Mexico’s tourism industry, […]

Sea Turtles are found in all of the world’s oceans, with exception of the arctic.  There are seven species of Sea Turtle, and six of these arrive to lay eggs each year on beaches across Mexico.Â
Although Sea Turtles live most of their lives at sea, the females must return to land to lay their eggs.  […]

The five day ‘shut down’ of most of the capital’s commercial outlets and public services came to an end today, as chilangos started to return to their normal activities and routines following the ’swine flu’ outbreak announced during late April.
Mexico City’s mayor enacted a series of special powers bestowed to him by the federal government, […]

Major US-based carriers have been announcing reductions on their Mexico flight routes over the last few days.  US Airways, Delta, Continental and United have all scaled-back their supply of seats by reducing flight frequencies and/or using smaller jets.
American Airlines was the last of the ‘major’ US carriers to announce a reduction of flights to Mexico.  […]