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At a press conference during the second day of the 35th edition of Tianguis Turistico in Acapulco, it was reported that cultural promotion campaigns launched in order to promote Mexico and destinations in this country, this will be supported by the agencies.

The Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara, said this month that will tear out your strategies to publicize the attractions of Mexico for the national and international visitors. He stated that they will extend the contracts they have with the companies responsible for them, and said that in parallel will launch a new tender soon.

The Mexican capital in September this year will be the headquarters of the International Tourism Fair of the Americas (FITA), which aims to be the main event of the sector on the continent.

Organizers said he hoped the presence of more than 150 000 attended the event to be held from 23 September and they hope to generate business for $ 70 million.

Fashion Spain Mexico (MEM) is maintained by Avantage MEM, is a company created in Mexico by the Spanish company Avantage Preu as a platform for the dissemination of Spanish design with a permanent presence in Mexico, whose goal is to help Spanish companies, especially the textiles and accessories, at its input, knowledge, implementation and consolidation in the Mexican market.

MEM is located in the prestigious Polanco neighborhood where they gather the most relevant brands in the world of fashion. Its headquarters are in California-style landmark house built around 1940 colonial and cataloged by the National Mexican Fine Arts (INBA).

The adoption of legal reforms to allow marriages between same sex will promote tourism in the Federal District of Mexico to become a gay-friendly city, "said local tourism secretary Alejandro Rojas. Accurate, that this decision will promote business investment in hospitality tourism, honeymoon packages and holiday dresses, banquets and other services that demand this community.

He also said that Mexico City will join other cities such as Buenos Aires, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and others that receive millions of dollars of investment and foreign exchange of economic income by tourism specializing in gay and lesbian community.

From Monday 21 until 31 December this year, the Tourism Board of Mexico will raffle 10 trips for two to the tourist cities of Cancun, Huatulco and Puerto Vallarta this draw will be made between human users of social networks such as Facebook , Twitter, Sonic, YouTube and Flickr, with competitions in the campaign Web site thanks to you Live Mexico.

Thus, it bets on social networks, which increasingly are recorded with the objective of promoting domestic tourism. In addition to the 10 trips (one day), giving away 10 kits that include a traveler's suitcase, two towels, two caps and two shirts with the image of the campaign.

In Mexico, from 2010 that is approaching the Vive Mexico campaign enters a new stage in strengthening the tourism sector, so informed the director of marketing for Tourism Promotion Council of Mexico, Carlos Behnsen Flathmann, who also qualify for this campaign as a social movement to be a very important factor in convincing Mexicans to travel within their country before going to international destinations.

Which is why it presents its second phase, thanks to you, Vive Mexico. They expect a return to 2010 levels by 2008: in other currencies is expected reach 13 billion dollars and in international tourist arrivals, 23 million people, it is to have a growth of almost 10% from what was reached in 2009.

After the opening of the symposium Love Mexico, tourism director, Jesus Martin Medina, said the wedding tourism is a segment highly demanded in the Riviera Maya, so that generates millions in economic income

In Love Mexico involves 40 companies offering hotels, banquets, restaurants, wedding designers and attended by 120 Wedding Planners. A many as 80 per cent of buyers are Americans, 15 percent in Canada and five percent from Mexico, said Araminta Castillo, managing partner of the event is organized by the corporation Mexico Wed.

Mexico will be hosted in September 2010 at the First International Tourism Fair of the Americas called FITA, which is projected to assist 300 thousand people from over 70 countries.

It was reported that the meeting will take place from 23 to 26 September in Mexico City for this purpose, the authorities of this country expected a profit of $ 70 million, generate 4 thousand 600 direct jobs and tens of thousands of indirect .

After the health reform passed by the U.S. Senate, a total of 400 thousand Americans who have no access to health rights to be received in clinics and hospitals in Mexico, which could increase medical tourism. The reform took place thanks to the initiative of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The intention with this bill is to get approval certificates and medical workers in Tijuana, Mexico. It is the first health reform bill approved in the U.S. since the creation of Medicare in the 1960s.

The Government of the Federal District Xochimilco, will launch a program of adventure travel trips, from the second half of next 2010, it was launched as part of the celebrations of the bicentennial of the Independence of this city, through of hot air balloon, is expected to promote tourism.

He explained that one of the areas where you can make this adventure sport is located a few meters Cuemanco Pier, but is still studying whether the ride will be free or will cost, opt for alternative tourism and heritage.

The town of Puerto Escondido is preparing to receive about 60 thousand national and international tourists with an opportunity to celebrate the festivities of November, so the state government of Oaxaca has been conducting an intensive dissemination of the various sporting events, cultural exhibitions.

At a press conference, it was reported that the fate of the Oaxacan Riviera will host more than 50 activities, such as 21 International Sailfish Tournament, Torneo Internacional de Surf, Supercross Championship Azteca XVI Coastal Dance Festival, outdoor stands Race modified rock bands contest and sports tournaments, among others.

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In order to generate increased tourism in the state, the director of the Tourism Promotion Trust Port, Jesus Radilla Calderon, said that to attract tourism in this season, this month are campaigning in different states. Acapulco's natural markets are Oaxaca, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Puebla, Veracruz, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas.

In that campaign joined hoteliers and tourism service providers, offers and discount packages, such as free nights and pay the tolls on the highway.

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In order to promote the gastronomic wealth and attract local and national tourism, the 16 to 18 October, will conduct the Third Food Festival del Mole hip Huajuapan de Leon.

The National Chamber of Industry Restaurants and Food Condiments (CANIRAC) in Huajuapan, restaurant operators reported that 23 participants from the Mixteca, by what is expected tourist influx of over 3 thousand people and an outlay of three million pesos. One purpose of the event is to rescue the Mole Hips, sixteenth-century pre-Columbian dish of the region and distinctive characteristic of Huajuapan de Leon.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- In Mexico, having been suspended 7 years, becomes the Mayan World Tourism Fair "Ki-Huic" to be held from 23 to 25 September. On this, the Tourism Development secretary, Juan Jose Martin Pacheco noted that the 2009 edition of the Mayan World Fair with the participation of 158 buyers from Mexico, United States, Canada, European Union and Latin America.

To this end, 87 exhibitors from Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatan, offering their products and services, wholesale agents, while directly materialize new trade agreements with other countries.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- In Mexico, they launched the International Tourism Fair of the Americas 2010 (FITA), which aims at positioning the City of Mexico as a major international tourist spots. The event will include joint participation of government authorities of the Federal District and entrepreneurs in the tourism industry.

The Fair will take place from 23 to 26 September next year during the celebrations of the Bicentennial of Independence. In the event were officials and businessmen from the tourism sector as Gaston Azcarraga, president and owner of Mexicana Airlines and Posadas hotel group, Diego and Eduardo Sanchez Navarro, real estate entrepreneurs in the sector, and individuals such as presidents of associations of travel agents hotels and restaurants in Mexico City.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- Businessmen and friends of the culture of Oaxaca in Mexico, are preparing everything to lead to Food and Culture Festival 2009 Oaxaca, to be held from 4 to September 11, to promote both aspects of life and attracting the tourism sector This event carries as a subtitle "The taste of knowledge, Oaxaca, beyond the seven moles."

Event organizers have said that excellence in the kitchen connected to the culture of Oaxaca aspects should be used positively, as the intention is to put this city on the international festival and an important cultural exchange between the festivities.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- Paracho the Town Council in Mexico, continues with the development of the XXXVI Feria Internacional de la Guitarra, which is one of the most successful fairs in this country, which offers concerts featuring the best orchestras in the state, representing dances the area, artistic performances, concerts and guitar with artists from Italy, Uruguay and United States, among other activities.

In that event, which was much appreciated after a guitar there are whole families who strive to offer a quality product at the International Guitar Show, which takes place from 01 to 09 August.

Sunday Morning August 9, Sarah Fernandez Bravo, Tierra Blanca, was crowned Miss Tourism and Culture Veracruz 2009, who represent the organization at various national and international events to promote culture and tourism and economic potentials in the area.

The event involved 32 candidates. The winner Sarah, besides representing the state in tourism projects and promotions, you get a car of the year, a scholarship to learn English and computer, a personal computer, a monthly financial support during the years of his reign, among other prizes donated by sponsoring the event.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- A study by the Institute for Social Research at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico states that is considered today as a major destination for sex tourism in Latin America, according to this research center devoted to the gangs of the trafficking sexually exploited every year about 10 thousand women who are tricked into states of central and southern Mexico and then moved towards the northern region, United States and Canada.

The investigation, which was funded by the National Science and Technology, said the trafficking of young people for the sex trade as a serious social problem that the Mexican authorities and society to analyze and solve.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The XIII International Festival of Adventure Tourism, is headquarters to the city of Chihuahua in Mexico, an event that is awaiting the arrival of a large number of tourists. This Festival, in its 2009 edition will start on Friday July 10 and end on Monday October 19, 2009, event which aims to promote the main attractions available to this destination, and thus intends to organize other events alternative tourism in the remainder of 2009.

It was reported that in the coming months will offer the best of Chihuahua on adventure, extreme sports and cycling within the XIII International Festival of Adventure Tourism. This market is attractive considering the mountain biking in Creel, The Canyons in the Ultra Guachochi, triathlon in Creel, The Adventure in Samalayuca Dunes and Los arrancones 1 / 8 Mile in Ojinaga, among others.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- In order to make available to the tourist population of Jalisco, Mexico, is being performed, the XII Regional Fair "Tourism for All is Jalisco" in the Historic Center of Guadalajara, an event that is organized by the Ministry of Tourism State, through the Director of Regional Development.

For this edition is special guest to the north of Jalisco, which through its Council for Tourism Promotion and Development show a mosaic of attractions, activities and tourist services in their region. The theme of the Fair is "Jalisco is Tourism for All" and was conducted from July 12 to 10 in the Liberation Square, in a time of 10:00 to 20:00 pm with free admission for the general public.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The cruise tourism Mariner of the Seas, arrived in the town of Mazatlan, located in the southern state of Sinaloa in Mexico, tourists who landed in the same was received by the mayor of the area Jorge Abel Lopez Sanchez and the secretary State Tourism, Antonio Ibarra Salgado, the ship transported 500 thousand to three thousand passengers and 300 crew, is the first to resume its journey to the Mexican port, after 54 days was decreed that the health risk due to human influenza.

Officials from the tourism sector, were very pleased by the arrival of this cruise, so welcoming to tourists, noting that Mexico requires serious and important developments, as tourism has to be competitive and this requires encourage investors to come to this country.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- El Malecon Puerto Vallarta, was the scene of the concert that took place in Mexico, to dispel the fear of tourism travel to Mexico by influenza A, whose driver was the artist Alejandro Fernandez, who brought together twenty artists from Latin America to show the beauty of the Mexican beaches worldwide.

Despite the torrential rain the audience expect to see their idols, which were, David Bisbal, Enrique Iglesias, Alejandro Fernandez, Coti, Fanny Lu, Luis Fonsi and Belanova, which brought together a hundred thousand people, then that the outbreak of influenza caused AH1N1 detected a sharp drop in tourism.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The Secretary of Tourism of Mexico, reported that through a press release, under the caption "Welcome back" (Welcome back), Mexico started this week with the tourism promotion campaign in major cities throughout United States and Canada. The campaign comprises three phases, including highlights coverage in the mainstream media in the key periods of summer, autumn and winter.

The first phase of the campaign is to spread the infection of influenza A H1N1 has been contained and is now safe to travel to Mexico in the second stage will highlight specific target promotions to generate immediate and reserves in the last stage will launch a campaign to leverage the cooperative demand for autumn-winter seasons.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The airlines Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, announced this week an offer airfare for eight popular beach destinations in Mexico, with a discount of 25 percent for sale will only last for two days and is valid only in alaskaair.com.

It was reported that the Mexican beach destinations and golf courses in first class are ready to welcome tourists. Tickets must be purchased until midnight on June 16, 2009, and complete the trip until October 31st of the year. The discount is valid in all the cities that serve Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air U.S. or Canada, excluding Hawaii, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- The city of Cancun was chosen to host the international meeting "Lessons Learned from Mexico, Canada and United States" of the epidemic of influenza A H1N1, which takes place on 1, 2 and July 3 next. This meeting was a suggestion of the WHO and the objective is to analyze the impact of the epidemic in the three countries and learning that can rescue other countries that are beginning to increase their rates of infection, taking into account the role of lead in a global contagion.

The organizers have confirmed the presence of the director of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, as well as the owner of the Pan American Health Organization, Mirta Roses, as well as specialists from the countries hardest hit by the virus.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- Paulina Rubio, one of the most representative of Mexico, the image will be promoted to the resort of Cancun in Europe, which is planning a campaign whose objective is to recover tourism, beaten by the epidemic of swine flu.

Mexican singer, will be presented Monday at a luxury hotel in Cancun as the "Ambassador of Tourism for Quintana Roo" state where the beach, which is the main tourist destination in Mexico. It is recalled that Paulina Rubio married in 2007 in Xcaret, near Cancun, which was attended by various personalities from the arts world.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- In order to encourage domestic tourism, the government of Mexico used a thousand 200 million pesos to promote tourist destinations inside and outside of Mexico, to strengthen a sector which was devastated by following The health emergency of human influenza A/H1N1. The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón announced the "Vive Mexico", accompanied by his cabinet legal, business, personalities from cultural, artistic and sports, said that the campaign will apply discounts and promotions.

The president said that the goal is to change the idea that the most beautiful in Mexico is expensive. The campaign aims to reverse the loss of about 100 thousand jobs in the tourism sector. To this end, the campaign includes the launch of a website, whose address is www.ofertasvivemexico.com.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- In order to revive tourism in Mexico, which was affected by the epidemic of influenza A, the minister of Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo, announced that it will spend about 1,200 pesos, equivalent to some $ 92 million, budget serve to promote a campaign to promote tourism nationally and internationally.

Through a press release, the owner of said business and tourism officials that the federal government has taken actions to overcome the impact of the health emergency, which is coupled to the United States lifted a travel alert to Mexico, that have resumed flights to Mexico in other nations like UK, Italy, Belgium, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador.

(HotelsToursandTourism.com).- Once erected the health risk from the virus of influenza A-H1N1, the Tourism Promotion Trust Acapulco invest over 13 million pesos on publicity campaigns to promote the image of port in this country, it also reinforced the image of the destination through a management plan for contingencies and other public relations activities at the national and international markets.

The director of the Tourism Promotion Trust Acapulco, Jesus Radilla Calderon, Acapulco reported to be promoted on radio, newspapers, journals, to do so without the support of the Sefotur and Tourism Board Mexico, these actions are taken While federal authorities declared the completion of the contingency and business health of the port such as bars and nightclubs are open.