Mexico Insight

Mexperience.com was launched seven years ago this month.
During the period since our launch, the web site — as indeed the web itself — has undergone some considerable transformation.  Computers and browsers have all increased in power and sophistication during the course of the last seven years, and the ways in which people access, interact and trade using the […]

Low-cost Mexican airline, Aviacsa, resumed its flights yesterday, ending a four-day hiatus that began when the Mexican government grounded twenty-five of its twenty-six air ships last week; an order which had left the airline effectively closed for business.   On Saturday June 6, a judge struck-down the grounding order imposed upon the company by the Ministry of Communications and Transport and Aviacsa started flying again.
The airline’s management […]

Key suppliers in Mexico’s tourism industry – particularly hotels and resorts – are playing an important role in attracting visitors back to the country following the A-H1N1 flu outbreak in April this year.
Rates at hotels and resorts across Mexico – including those at some of the world’s most sought-after beach destinations and some the country’s most […]

The News, Mexico’s only English-language newspaper, resurfaced in October 2007, five years after going out of print.  Last week, less than two years after the title’s renaissance, the owners pulled out and closed down the offices.
The News was originally published by the O’Farrill family in 1950 and, in its heyday, was one of Mexico’s most successful publications, long before […]

Mexican low-cost airline Aviacsa was grounded by the Ministry of Communications and Transport on Tuesday, June 2nd, citing ‘irregularities’ with twenty-five of the company’s planes which, it said, endangered ‘air safety, cargo and passengers’.  The Ministry also stated that the grounding of the airline was unrelated to an ongoing legal dispute concerning the payment of fees for use […]

Mexperience readers of old will know that we have always encouraged them to bring their foreign currency and exchange it in Mexico, as the deals on offer here provide much better value than exchanging currency over the counter in the USA, Canada and Europe.
Mexico City’s international airport has, forever it seems, been the country’s ‘bellwether’ […]

Travelers planning a vacation or business trip to Mexico will benefit from deep discounts on hotel nights starting now, as hoteliers embark upon an aggressive price-cutting period to encourage visitors to return.  Taking cues from the size of discount being offered, the country’s hotel industry is quite serious about encouraging tourists back to Mexico.
In what is undoubtedly the […]

Today, May 16, the United States and Britain lifted the travel warnings, which previously advised their citizens against traveling to Mexico.
Both countries issued travel advisories on April 27, telling their citizens to avoid ‘all but essential travel to Mexico’.  The warnings immediately set-off an avalanche of business and leisure trip cancellations, and forced tour companies, […]

It’s no suprise that the people who have found themselves particularly disadvantaged by Mexico’s recent flu outbreak are the millions of hard-working Mexicans serving the country’s tourism industry.
Hotels, restaurants and local tour operators are among those businesses that have been heavily bruised by an unprecedented downturn in visitor numbers to Mexico, and the millions of Mexican families who depend directly […]

In a press conference given earlier today, Mexico’s Health Minister, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, stated that the key Mexican resort areas of Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel, Mazatlan, San Jose del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas and Zihuatanejo have not reported a single case of the A-H1N1 flu virus.
Notwithstanding this, these areas, along with most of Mexico’s tourism industry, […]