Mexico asks Texas to soften tone of travel alerts

Mexico asks Texas to soften tone of travel alerts...Mexico is asking Texas authorities to tone down travel warnings that broadly discourage tourists from crossing the border because of violence..The head of Mexico's state-run tourism board on Wednesday was in Austin to meet with Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade and law enforcement officials. Mexico wants Texas to stop portraying the entire country as unsafe in travel bulletins..A spring break advisory in March cautioned Texans against traveling even to popular resort areas such as Cancun because of crime.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18229734

Mexico president Calderon says drug war not hurting tourism in Mexico

Mexico president Calderon says drug war not hurting tourism in Mexico..told a group of travel industry executives in Las Vegas Thursday (he's still in the U.S. or he's back??) that international tourism was up 6% last year in MX, with 10% more American tourists visiting. Calderon says with 23 million international visitors last year and 6 million on cruise ships, there were "almost zero" incidents of tourists encountering crime related to drug car (American Cruse ships aren't stopping at the MX ports and flights have been cut back from the U.S.....THIS GUY IS LYING AND ON THE SAME DRUGS AS OUR ADMINISTRATION!)

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mexico-president-says-drug-war-not-hurti

A Plan to Address Birth Tourism

A Plan to Address Birth Tourism...step that can go long way in reducing the problems associated with this practice, and one fraught with fewer potential land mines, is to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to detect, deter, and penalize foreigners who come to the U.S. on tourist or other temporary visas for the purpose of giving birth and returning home.

http://cis.org/node/2802

Mexico Tries to Hide Muderous Cartel Violence with Tourist Marketing Ad Campaign... ad blitz fights dangerous image

Mexico Tries to Hide Muderous Cartel Violence with Tourist Marketing Ad Campaign... ad blitz fights dangerous image...Arizona’s neighbor to the south is spending millions in print media and on billboards in United States cities, hoping to sway Americans from cancelling their visits because of reports of violence involving the drug cartels.

http://ktar.com/category/local-news-articles/20110517/Mexico-ad-blitz-fights-dangerous-image/

AZ: Scottsdale hotels, tourism rebound

AZ: Scottsdale hotels, tourism rebound.. Scottsdale's tourism industry continued to rebound this winter from the recession slump and posted the nation's strongest hotel-performance figures in March compared with the top-25 hotel markets. That topped Miami in occupancy by just over 1 percentage point and per-room revenue was more than $4 higher than New York, typically the nation's priciest hotel market

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2011/05/15/20110515scottsdale-hotels-tourism-rebound.html