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Mexico safer than headlines indicate

Christine Delsol The San Francisco Chronicle Quick – which national capital has the higher murder rate: Mexico City or Washington, D.C.? If you answered Mexico City, you’d be in good company – after all, Mexico is a war zone, isn’t it? But you would be wrong, on both counts. Based on FBI crime statistics for [...]

Travel Safety in Perspective: USA vs. Mexico

Violence and safety traveling to Mexico - Puerto Vallarta

There’s been a lot of news coverage about violence in Mexico, very little of it bothering to note that Mexico is a huge country with thirty-some states and that a) almost all of that violence is narco-related and b) you can count the number of tourists affected on one hand. Meanwhile, according to the FBI, “An [...]

Travel expert: Why you should go to Mexico

By Robert Reid, Special to CNN 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 [...]

Mexico Still the Number One Vacation Destination for Americans

Negrete Says Mexico Tourism Growing at `Very Rapid' Pace

Mexico Tourism Board Quarterly Results Mexico Still the Number One Vacation Destination for Americans NEW YORK, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Mexico Tourism Board has today released results of 2011 first quarter tourism activity inMexico. Across a raft of measures from tour operators, airlines, resorts, cruise lines and attractions the first three months of 2011 has proven [...]

Danger Increasing in Mexico? Large Investments Say No

Journey Mexico On April 22nd, the US State Department updated its travel warning for Mexico, expanding it to include five new states: Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, and Zacatecas. Although the Travel Warning clearly states: “There is no evidence that U.S. tourists have been targeted by criminal elements due to their citizenship,” the increase [...]

Puerto Vallarta Real Estate Trends 2010 – 2011

John Youden Vallarta Lifestyle Publishing Group Looking back, the year 2010 will most likely be seen as a turning point for the Vallarta/Riviera Nayarit real estate market. After having survived the global economic crisis and the swine flu scare that brought the real estate market to a virtual standstill during 2008-2009 (And yes, that was [...]

Mexico Tourism Board battles Texas in social media over Spring Break advisory

The Mexico Tourism Board has taken to YouTube, Twitter and PR Newswire to counter a Texas Department of Public Safety advisory “urging Spring Breakers to avoid traveling to Mexico because of continued violence…” “Mexican tourist destinations are very safe,” the tourism board says in a press release, citing figures that 22 million foreigners visited Mexico in [...]

Mexico Attracting Spring Breakers Despite Violence

MEXICO CITY — Spring break reservations for Mexico from U.S. college students remain steady, travel industry experts say, despite near-daily reports of drug violence there. Cheap prices in Mexico, a slowly strengthening economy here, the relative safety of many tourist resorts and the fact that the 2009 swine flu pandemic is now all but forgotten [...]

If facts don’t lie, is Mexico safer than the U.S.?

By Patrick Osio, Jr. HispanicVista.com If facts don’t lie, is Mexico safer than the U.S.? 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 [...]

Hotels deal with Mexican violence

Hotelnewsnow.com REPORT FROM MEXICO — Hoteliers in Mexico are adapting their operating and development strategies as the body count in the drug-torn country rises. All too often, headlines from Mexico involve headless bodies and revenge killings. During 2010 alone, 15,273 people were killed because of drug violence, according to an AFP report. Several property-level hotel [...]

Former News10 reporter: Mexico drug war fears different from reality

PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO – A former News10 reporter now living in Mexico wants to help separate perception from reality regarding the horrible drug violence gripping parts of the country. “People have asked me how I can stand living in Mexico,” said Dan Adams, who retired to Puerto Vallarta three years ago after a nearly 30-year [...]

Bad Guys v. Bad Guys: guardian.co.uk DATABLOG: Mexico drugs war murders data mapped

guardian.co.uk DATABLOG Murders in Mexico’s drug wars have been detailed in a huge new release of crime data – see how they look. The Mexican government has released a database it says covers all murders presumed to have a link to the country’s drug wars in which at least seven different cartels are fighting each other [...]

L.A. Times: How Mexico’s drug war affects tourism

L.A. Times – Christopher Reynolds Violence has increased, but some areas are relatively safe and airlines are adding flights. What can travelers expect from Mexico in 2011? That’s at least a $64 million question, given the many people who visit the country every year. And the answers seem to point every which way. Across Mexico, [...]

The Mexico Quandary: Safety or Savings?

Tourists walk along the beach in front of Zazilkin, a hotel with rustic cabanas in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Though resort areas are mostly free from drug-related violence, some travelers avoid Mexico, leaving deals for those who dare. By MICHELLE HIGGINS, New York Times WHEN Alex Trettin and his wife, Jenn, suggested to family and friends that they take a group vacation to Mexico, the reaction was mixed. About half of the group of [...]

Security in Puerto Vallarta — John Youden — Vallarta Lifestyles

John Youden – Vallarta Lifestyles I often get asked how I feel about the violence that has been rocking Mexico over the past few years. Does it effect my lifestyle? My work? I can’t truthfully say it doesn’t effect us, it does, but perhaps not in the way some people think. It effects us because [...]

Great video blogging by Simply Vallarta

The guys at Simply Vallarta are making some very helpful and funny vids worth a look. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pzb3dIazGc[/youtube] Be sre to check out their blog http://www.simplyvallarta.com/category/blog/

Minnesotans flock to Puerto Vallarta

April 3, 10:55 PMMinneapolis Airlines/Airport ExaminerMarc Friedman The winter and spring break travel season is drawing to a close and once again Minnesotans (Wisconsinites, Iowans and ‘Dakotans’) by the thousands have traveled to the beautiful Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta. Last week was my first visit to the Pacific coast destination and honestly, I was pleasantly [...]

Amid drug war, Mexico less deadly than decade ago

By ALEXANDRA OLSON The Associated Press Monday, February 8, 2010 With Congress still stalled on the big health bill, it turns to smaller pieces of legislation. The House this week will vote on a bill to repeal a decades-old insurance industry exemption from antitrust laws. Some analysts say eliminating the exemption wouldn’t have an impact [...]

Mexico: The elusive truth about safety

Posted by: Tom Foster, Monday, Mar 30, 2009, 10:15 AM If you happened to watch the news or pick up a newspaper (or even just leave the house) this past week, you probably got hit with the flood of news about escalating violence in Mexico’s drug war. CNN sent Anderson Cooper to El Paso, Texas, where he [...]