Hannah Sampson, Skift
Mexico's tourism promotion body probably needed some changes, but this is likely going too far. Will Mexico's travel industry find a way to fill the gap?
7 days ago
Isaac Carey, Skift
Twitter users are saying the airline just trolled Americans — and the outcome is pretty funny.
1 month ago
Andrea Navarro and Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg
Yes, Mexico's new airport was going to cost more money than was necessary. And yes, the location on dry lake bed was not ideal. But it is still shocking the new government scrapped the project, considering it was well underway.
2 months ago
Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
Airbnb may have another crack at a deal with Mexico's new administration, but it's unclear whether a new attempt would be successful.
3 months ago
Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
Interjet needs all the cash it's borrowing. But in the years to come, the airline will likely regret having piled on so much debt.
4 months ago
Daniela Guzman and Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
The cost of abandoning Mexico City's new airport could be as high as $10.5 billion, but Mexico's president-elect maintained that the project gave him serious misgivings.
4 months ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
The relationship between American tourists and Mexico is nearly a century old and has weathered ups and downs. Today's drug-related violence, mounting border tension, and political rhetoric won't stop these trips, but are clearly disrupting them.
4 months ago
Nikki Ekstein, Bloomberg
Truth be told, Mexico tourism officials have been promoting Riviera Nayarit as the country's next big tourism destination for at least the past decade. But it looks like, finally, that hard work is beginning to pay off.
5 months ago
Daniela Guzman and Andrea Navarro, Bloomberg
The decision to cancel or continue building Mexico City's new airport might be put to a national referendum in October, said President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It's often problematic to put an infrastructure project up for a popular vote, but this may be a special case.
6 months ago
Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
On paper, it sounds like a great idea for Mexico, down to reducing overtourism in some of the Yucatan's more popular spots by allowing access to more remote regions. But like any project of this scale, and with this price tag, politics and certain opposition loom.
6 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
At least Mexico's president-elect, López Obrador, has tapped someone intimately familiar with the travel industry and how it operates locally and internationally. It's more than the United States can say it's done for travel in the past year and a half.
8 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
Mexico's tourism industry has been lucky in the past year as the violence mostly hasn't targeted tourist destinations like Mexico City. But if history is any guide, tourism is often the focus for anyone wanting to cause harm and chaos. We hope we're wrong about this one.
9 months ago