Jill Schensul gazes into her crystal ball for travel trends for the new year.
MEXICO VACATION FORUM
MEXICO VACATION FORUM
Jan
3
CANADA AND MEXICO AMONG POPULAR TRENDS - Sun, 03 Jan 2010 PST (The Spokesman-Review)
Forecasts for 2010 predict that more people will be traveling, though the numbers remain well below what they were before the recession. Still, if you can afford to get away, interesting events will draw visitors to destinations around the world, from Shanghai to South Africa to Orlando.
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Jan
2
Desperate Somalis travel ‘back-door’ route to U.S. (The Durango Herald)
LANCASTER, Calif. - The asylum seeker from Somalia hung his head as an immigration judge grilled him about his treacherous journey from the Horn of Africa. By air, sea and land he finally made it to Mexico, and then a taxi delivered him into the arms of U.S. border agents at San Diego.
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Jan
2
Migrants stay in U.S. for the holidays (San Bernardino Sun)
The economic crisis, coupled with rising violence in Mexico, prompted fewer immigrants to travel south of the border for the holidays in 2009, Mexican officials said.
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Jan
2
Mexico bus crash kills 14 (CBC.ca)
A bus carrying farm workers and their families home plunged off a cliff in northern Mexico on Saturday, killing 14 people and injuring 21.
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Jan
2
Silver City program to air Saturday (Silver City Sun-News)
SILVER CITY — The first airing of the Silver City segment on Travel Guide New Mexico will be broadcast 10 a.m. Saturday on KRQE, channel 13.
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Jan
2
U.S. civic leader slain in Mexico as lawlessness grows (The Wenatchee World)
LOS ANGELES — The execution-style murder of a young El Monte, Calif., civic leader in Mexico was viewed Friday as a stark sign of just how widely the country’s savage drug violence has spread. Bobby Salcedo, an assistant principal and school board member, had no ties to narcotics trafficking, said his family and friends. He is believed to be the first U.S. elected official killed in the 4-year …
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Jan
2
Travel 2010: Shanghai expo, Vancouver (Ventura County Star)
Forecasts for 2010 predict that more people will be traveling, but the numbers are still well below what they were before the recession.Still, if you can afford to get away, interesting events will draw visitors to destinations around the world, from Shanghai to South Africa to Orlando.And here’s a surprise: Mexico is turning up on many top 10 lists for 2010, despite the swine flu epidemic and …
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Jan
1
In Mexico, ladies ring in the New Year in brand-new underwear (Washington Post)
MEXICO CITY — A visitor here might be confused when suddenly, at the end of December, there appears in street stalls and market bins a mountain of underwear for sale. At subway stops, in grocery aisles, in department stores, it’s all about ladies’ undergarments, and always in the colors red or y…
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Jan
1
Community mourns educator murdered in Mexico (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Rep. Judy Chu Friday called on Mexican authorities to do whatever possible to solve the slaying of an El Monte school board member and assistant high school principal who was shot to death while vacationing in Mexico.
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