By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Queretaro Hotel Association hosted a summer outlet forum for tourism wholesalers and agents at Mexico City’s Hacienda de los Morales restaurant on Wednesday, July 14. During the event, the association, composed of 56 of the state’s leading hotels, offered package discounts of up to 40 percent off for stays between July 1 and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican hotel and restaurant chain Grupo President will add the Cielo Winery & Resort in Valle de Guadalupe to its 22-property portfolio as of Sept. 1, the group announced Monday, June 29. The new hotel and winery were developed as a vino tourism project by Gustavo Ortega Joaquín, the resort’s general director, and
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By KELIN DILLON Analysts say Mexico’s international tourism could massively suffer as a result of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgrading its airspace ranking on Tuesday, May 25, from a category one to a category two, effectively limiting the country from opening new air routes or flying Mexican airlines into the United States. The downgrade came after a less-than-stellar
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Radwa Abdelaziz, wife of Egyptian Ambassador to Mexico Klaled Abdelrahaman Abdellatif Shamaa, offered a “Taste of Egypt” luncheon at their Bosques de las Lomas residence in Mexico City on Tuesday, May 25, to both commemorate Africa Day (which marks the 1963 foundation of the Organization of African Unity) and to showcase Egyptian culture. The guests, who included
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train, a pet project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that both national and international environmentalists have repeatedly warned could destroy over half of the Yucatan’s fragile species, will also leave more than 3,000 mostly indigenous Mexican families homeless, according to report published in El Universal newspaper on
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By KELIN DILLON After a period of consecutive hiccups in Mexico’s air travel sector, including near-collisions, construction accidents during the building of the new Santa Lucia airport, and a suspension of Mexico City’s new airspace redesign, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concluded its audit of the Mexican Federal Civil Aviation Agency’s (AFAC) aviation security, which will decide whether the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s usually-robust tourism industry suffered brutal losses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reaching its lowest level since World War II, and now experts are warning that 2021 could fare even worse for Mexico’s tourism than its predecessor. Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed in a report there was a 46 percent drop
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By RICH GRANT It would be difficult to overestimate the strange appeal that the American Civil War holds on some people. Historian Ken Burns notes that more than 50,000 books have been written on the conflict. There are obscure books on the buttons of the Civil War, the horses, even the weather. There are eight Civil War magazines and hundreds
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XINHUA There are growing concerns over the detection of three new variants of covid-19 in 20 countries in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday, Feb. 3. These variants “are raising questions about a possible increase” in the transmissibility of the virus, said Carissa F. Etienne, the director of PAHO. During a virtual press conference, Etienne asked
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By RICH GRANT “Wild Bill” Hickock was such a romantic figure, it is hard to believe he really existed. Of course, through dime novels, movies, HBO, television shows and merchandising for 155 years, his image has become a caricature of the real thing. But look back at what contemporaries wrote about him, and you can understand why he became so
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