The Daily Briefing – Thursday, May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023
Puerto Vallarta News
Banderas Bay Trends 2023 displayed the highlights of romance industry
The Banderas Bay Trends 2023 event was held at Club Regina’s Patio Los Arcos with the goals of informing attendees about wedding industry trends, integrating suppliers into this supply chain, and forging partnerships between service providers in the romance industry.
Evelina Chavez, Director of Eventives Destination Weddings and one of the event organizers, stated that the main goal of this meeting, which is intended to be an annual event, is to connect business owners in the wedding industry.
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The LGBTQ+ flag was raised on the balcony of the Vallarta City Hall
The flag of the LGBTQ+ community was raised on the balcony of the mayor’s office Luis Michel Rodríguez, who highlighted the equality of all people on this International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia and Biphobia.
Activist Edgar Treviño stressed that the movement has left a lot of blood in the history of this city.
Los Cabos News
Los Cabos Hotels prepping for hurricane season
The Los Cabos hurricane season officially began on May 15, and hotels have finished making arrangements to protect guests during what is anticipated to be a very active season.
The Los Cabos hotels have finished preparing for the upcoming hurricane season, according to Lilzi Orci, president of the Los Cabos Hotel Association.
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Increased lifeguard coverage in Los Cabos; arrival of more jellyfish expected
The strong, erratic currents and big waves are typically the causes of safety concerns on Los Cabos beaches, but now the arrival of jellyfish in large numbers is raising those issues as well.
As a result, there are now more lifeguards on Los Cabos’ beaches, as the government has issued a warning about the continuing arrival of jellyfish.
Cancun News
Traffic changes due to construction cause chaos in downtown Cancun
Traffic changes are causing chaos for motorists traveling from downtown Cancun to the International Airport and vice versa.
From 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. every day, there are cases of motorists crossing the curb of the Cancun-Tulum highway to go from the north-south lane to the opposite direction.
This is due to the traffic operations set up by the Transit Department to make motorists coming from the south enter the airport from the Fonatur roundabout, at the end of the hotel zone.
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Akumal busiest beach destination in Mexico reports Secretary of Tourism
For the first quarter of 2023, the government of Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism reported a 60.5% hotel occupancy rate nationwide.
In the 70 centers that DataTur was watching, hotel occupancy was 60.5%, up 9.5 percentage points from 2022. For beach centers, an average of 142,685 occupied rooms were recorded, compared to 124,300 during the same time period in 2022, an increase of 14.8%.
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