The popularity of whale shark tours and excursions has skyrocketed in Cancun and the Mexican Caribbean this year, with local companies organizing more trips than in the past two years. The whale shark season lasts from May until late September, when the world’s largest fish species congregate in the warm waters of the Mexican Caribbean. …
Royalton will open a new hotel in the Riviera Maya this December. The new luxury property will be called Royalton Splash Riviera Cancun and is the latest addition to a growing number of hotel openings in the area. Situated along the Riviera Maya coastline, the all-inclusive, family-friendly resort focuses on entertainment for all ages. Travelers …
This month, sargassum levels in Cancun and Quintana Roo are predicted to drop rapidly. Monitoring by the state’s Secretary of the Navy of Mexico (Semar) has shown that no massive arrivals of the seaweed are expected to arrive on Cancun’s shores from this week onwards. This is a huge relief for tourists looking to visit …
The number of foreign tourists who visit popular vacation destinations in Mexico has skyrocketed over the last year or so, and just in Cancun and the Mexican Caribbean alone, 4 million Americans have visited already this year. More Americans visit the area than tourists from any other country, and even pre-pandemic, 50 percent of foreign …
A tour bus owned by the popular Xcaret Group recently caught on fire in the Cancun Hotel Zone, with 25 people on board. The fire was not caused by criminals, like a number of other buses and transport vehicles in recent days, but rather an electrical issue, according to preliminary assessments. Although the bus completely …
There has been a lot of talk about safety concerns regarding certain areas in Mexico in recent months, and Cancun has come up in those conversations a number of times. And while much of the crime that occurs doesn’t involve tourists, multiple Cancun tourist buses have recently gone up in flames after intentionally being lit …
Cancun International Airport welcomes around 500 flights a day most of the time, and new flights are being added all the time. One of the most recent additions to this list is Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The airport will start offering new non-stop flights to Cancun this winter, which is perfect timing for those who wish …
There are a lot of cities in the United States that offer direct flights to Cancun but one U.S. airport, specifically, offers more daily non-stop flights to the Mexican Caribbean vacation destination than any other city in the country. Dallas-Fort Worth offers non-stop flights to more than 50 different destinations and a total of seven …
One of the biggest reasons for Cancun’s popularity is the huge collection of luxury all-inclusive resorts that tourists have to choose from and now one of them, Dreams Vista Cancun, has recently been recognized as a Four Diamond Resort by AAA. The AMR Collection resort is located inside a gated community and features a beautiful …
Funding Issues Freeze Progress On An Already Hampered Project Construction work on the new Tulum International Airport has been temporarily paused due to funding problems. No date has been given on the project’s restart. In what will be a major blow to the tourist industry in Quintana Roo, the eagerly anticipated airport will now no …