During the 6th Annual Development Forum held by Hilton Worldwide recently in the Embassy Suites Hilton Reforma in the Mexican capital, the company announced that there are plans to open new hotels throughout the Mexican Republic. The Hilton Worldwide executives presented no less than seven of the company’s 10 brands to an audience made up [...]

The US hotel and resort company Wyndham Resorts, the world’s largest lodging franchisor with a list of over 7,000 hotels on six continents is currently offering ‘summer breaks’ and, amongst a whole host of possibilities, three of the company’s installations in Mexico are providing the opportunity to  ‘Buy Two Nights, Get Two Nights Free.’ In [...]

The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) has awarded Mexico’s world-famous eco-friendly resort of Hacienda Tres Ríos, on the Riviera Maya, with one gold (for the third year in a row) and three silver ARDA Awards. At this year’s annual convention, the ARDA committee once again recognised the efforts of this exclusive luxury hotel built by [...]

The Mexican hotel group Posadas has announced it is to increase its number of business–class hotels, under the Fiesta Inn brand by 50% to reach 90 through the construction of a further 30 hotels to be opened in 2014 over the length and breadth of the Republic, except the northern-frontier states. At the same time, [...]

Considered by many to be the most important German-language travel portal: HolidayCheck, recently announced its 2011 ‘HolidayCheck Awards,’ and the ClubHotel Riu Tequila, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, managed to pick up one of the awards. Amongst the winners, the ClubHotel Riu Tequila came out tops in the “favourite among the under 30 age [...]

The Mexican hotel franchise: Hotel City, has announced the opening of 10 new hotels throughout this year, at a cost of 600 million pesos, thus doubling the company’s investments in 2010. The City Express brand is aimed at the business traveller and will be expanding its destination options to serve Aguascalientes, Ciudad del Carmen, Culiacan, [...]

Accompanied by Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, and the Mexican Tourism Minister, Gloria Guevara Manzo, yesterday the InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) President for the Americas, Jim Abrahamson, officially announced that the Group is to invest US$500 million dollars in Mexico. This important announcement was made from the official residence of the Mexican president, ‘Los Pinos,’ [...]

Mexico’s National Trust for Tourism Promotion (FONATUR) and the *Federation of Haciendas and Historic Hotels of Mexico have signed an agreement in benefit of the top-end hotel sector, which will see magnificent architectural gems incorporated into the ‘premium’ tourism niche in Mexico. FONATUR, created 36 years ago, will offer the private-sector Federation its long experience [...]

The Irving-based US hotel group La Quinta, with over 800 hotels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, has announced investment plans for a further 16 hotels in Mexican territory over the next two years. The amount the company is to invest is around 77 million dollars, and according to Rajiv Trivedi, Executive Vice President of [...]

The Spanish hotel Group: Riu has announced that everything is going to schedule with the construction of their latest hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico, and that the hotel should be opened sometime in June of next year, just in time to take advantage of the Pan-American Games, to be hosted in the city. ———- UPDATE:  On [...]