Last Tuesday, on November 14th, TripAdvisor unveiled its annual Winter Travel Index, offering insights into Americans’ winter travel preferences for the upcoming season. The report revealed interesting data, including that 58% of Americans will travel this season and a significant rise in international travel, with Mexico and the Caribbean snatching up the top 10 most …
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With just over a month to go until the Maya Train begins its inaugural route between Palenque, Chiapas and Cancun, all sights are set on its future as the excitement grows for all of the Yucatan Peninsula to be unlocked for the world. Campeche is set to be one state that will become more popular …
It’s finally here – the long-awaited winter season in the Mexican Caribbean has arrived, and with it, a bucketload of visitors ready to experience the vacation of a lifetime. For Americans, Cancun is the reigning champion as the most desired place to be this winter, with hotel bookings skyrocketing once more, just as they had …
Feeling safe in a destination can truly make or break a vacation for the budding traveler, and that is one side of the tourism sector that is being given full attention by governments in the Mexican Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula. The go-to app Uber has found itself in headlines recently after contending with taxi companies …
As with many of the most popular hotspots in the region, Playa del Carmen was once a quiet fishing town with little tourist activity and was certainly not on the map for being one of the top places to visit in the world. Now a far cry from that lonely image, Playa del Carmen is …
There is one thing that the Mexican Caribbean is in no short supply of and that is beaches. The number of blue flag beaches in the region is rising exponentially, which in turn brings more and more tourists to visit in search of the picture-perfect vacation. Quintana Roo in particular has some of the most popular …
Cancun is the number one international destination for American travelers this year, according to a study conducted on flight booking data by travel website Skift. With 17.5% of all bookings from U.S. cities to international airports from January to August, Cancun emerged as the top destination, even surpassing the second-most popular, London, with 8.5%. Moreover, …
After several quiet months in which sargassum on Cancun’s coastline began to feel like a cured ailment, a “perfect storm” to the southeast of the destination changed the course of a sizeable clump of sargassum and redirected it back into the current that snakes its way to the destination’s beautiful beaches. Naturally, travelers excited about …
Cancun is by far the most popular beach vacation destination in Mexico among foreign tourists, and there are many reasons to love it. Beautiful beaches, exciting nightlife, and great food are just a few of the perks you get when you visit Cancun. But there are three reasons in particular why Americans visit Cancun more …
With just over a month to go, tourists and locals alike are gearing up for the inauguration of the most anticipated project in the Mexican Caribbean and beyond. As if like a metaphorical key that will unlock the entirety of the Yucatan Peninsula and much more, the billion-dollar Maya train is about to make exploration …