By Lark Ellen Gould Where’s the beach? Mexico. Some 1,000 kilometers of it. But at this year’s 37th Tianguis Turistico held for the first time ever not in Acapulco, but in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico pulled out the stops for showcasing just what this country of fun in the sun can do for visitors. High on […]

Travel-Intel cruise guru Bill Becken interviews Torstein Hagen, CEO, Viking River Cruises, about today’s cruise market and its customers. How will the cruise industry, especially river cruising, address and service them? What will future customers look for in cruise products? Hagen gives answers to these questions and others.

Mexico travel deserves its own planet. The choices for resorts in Mexico are as varied as notes on a perfumer’s palette. But one Mexico travel experience deserves a space of its own, a golden distillation in a menagerie of sensual possibilities: Imanta Punta de Mita. A member of the Kurta-Ahlers collection of rarified hotels and […]

The economic recession may be bad for business but a new report by ASTA shows that travel agents are making more money now than they were before the markets fell. The number of agencies that made a profit in 2011 (55%) has surpassed 2007 levels (53%), indicating continued growth in the travel industry, ASTA’s 2012 […]

By Lark Ellen Gould Riviera Nayarit was barely a blip on the map a decade ago, but since that time, the 200 mile stretch of pristine Pacific coastline just north of Puerto Vallarta has sprung into a corridor of all-inclusives at the bottom end, a pocket of mucho-exclusives edging north and a sprinkling of precious […]