Planned new Metro bus project linking Cancun and Tulum
To meet growing passenger demand, four local bus companies have joined forces with plans to offer a new Metro bus service linking Cancun and Tulum. They will operate a new fleet of larger buses that are 16 to 18 meters long. The vehicles are…
Cancun Airport news
Cancun Airport continues to grow with the planned construction of a fifth terminal as part of its development project for the next six years. Building is slated to begin in 2019. The new facility will enable the airport to handle an additional…
Train travel planned for the Maya World
Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently announced a number of national development projects, including the Maya Train or Tren Maya, a railway that would link parts of southeast Mexico and enable tourists to discover some…
Beach cleaning update
It is natural for seaweed to wash up on the beach from season to season, after storms and in the summer heat. However, this summer large quantities of two species of seaweed known as Gulfweed or Sargassum (Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans)…
Flamingo chicks ringed in Ria Lagartos
Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve on the Gulf coast of Yucatán is home to the world’s largest breeding population of Caribbean flamingos and in August biologists, park wardens, local NGOs such as Niños y Crias A.C. and volunteers joined forces…
Seaweed landings in the Caribbean
It is natural for seaweed to wash up on the beach from season to season, after storms and in the summer heat. However, this summer larger quantities of two species of seaweed known as Gulfweed or Sargassum (Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans)…
Mexico welcomes even more visitors in 2018
The Mexican Tourism Board recently announced that in March, Mexico welcomed four million international visitors, 14.6 percent more than the same month in 2017.
From January to March, the number of Canadian visitors to Mexico rose 17.4 percent…
The world’s best city to visit, and it’s in Mexico
For the second year running, the readers of Travel & Leisure magazine have voted San Miguel de Allende, Mexico’s colonial jewel and UNESCO World Heritage Site, as the Best City in the World to visit. Another Mexican city, Oaxaca, also…
Mayan discoveries in southern Quintana Roo
Mexican archaeologists studying the ancient Mayan cities of Dzibanche, Kinichna, Tutil and Ichkabal in southern Quintana Roo have identified a network of sacbes or highways that once linked the sites. This discovery was made possible by the…
News about jaguar conservation in Mexico
At an international conference on the jaguar and other tropical felines found in the Americas held in Cancun, June 8 -15 and attended by representatives of 20 countries, Mexico shared some important information about the country’s population…
