The British travel agent Hayes & Jarvis has just released its latest ‘trend report’ in which the Caribbean has emerged as one of the star destinations regarding long-haul travel among the British public. However, Mexico is definately the top choice so far this year, with the travel agancy reporting bookings to the Mexican Republic up [...]

Gloria Guevara, Mexico’s Tourism Minister has announced financial aid to the country’s small and medium-sized travel agencies through the creation of a 300-million-peso credit line (around US$25.6mn), according to the Minister, benefitting around 4,000 companies. The monies for the credit lines will be provided by Mexico’s Economy Ministry (SE) and the government’s development bank: Nacional [...]

The Toronto-based Canadian travel company Contiki Holidays has teamed up with Celine Cousteau, granddaughter of the famous Jacques Cousteau, in whose footsteps she has chosen to follow as a spokesperson and expedition member for her father’s non-profit organization, Ocean Futures Society. Cousteau has agreed to work ‘in partnership’ with Contiki to promote the protection of [...]

Expedia, Inc, the world’s most popular online travel agency (OTA) recently announced that the company has registered an increase (30%) in Mexican hotels promoting their services through the company, in turn leading to an increase of 25% in sales for travel to Mexico. These figures are taken from the company’s Expedia.com and Hotels.com brands, in [...]

The Spanish online flight-search engine MirayVuela has expanded its flight offering to incorporate all Mexico’s airlines into its services, meaning additional search options for everyone aiming to fly to, or around, the Mexican Repubic sometime in the future. In addition to the actual flight options made available by this Web site, its ‘alert service’ means [...]

Mexico’s Tourism Promotion Council (CPTM) has sealed a deal with the Spanish travel agency: El Corte Inglés to provide additional promotion for travel to Mexico in its 650 branches with offers that range from discounts for advanced sales to 2×1 in Premium travel. The offers can be purchased from now until the 17th of April, [...]

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 Microsoft spinn off, online-travel booking site Expedia, Inc., has formed a strategic alliance with the global, UK-based marketing corporation: WPP Group, the two coming together to promote bookings via Internet for the Latin American tourism sector. Expedia, Inc., whose 3rd-quarter income was a mere $176.6 million (after tax ), will be launching its parnership [...]

Hayes & Jarvis, the British travel agent, has just announced its first ever Mexico brochure, offering 7 resort destinations, just in time to take advantage of British Airways new direct services between London Gatwick and Cancun as of November 3rd. The company has expanded its Mexico collection for this winter season because, according to the [...]