Accordingly to Travel Weekly (the newspaper of the travel industry), occupancy rates at Mexico hotels dropped to 24% after the Swine Flu (officially called the H1N1 virus) outbreak.  That represents a drop in over 50% from the same week in 2008.
My experience in Cancun earlier in the week was consistent with these numbers, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see the occupancy rate plunge even lower.
High schools were reopening the day after I left, and the lower schools were scheduled to reopen next week.  The city seems to be getting a handle on things, and slowly starting to return …read more

If you find yourself in Mexico City and you try to understand how waste is managed, then you will probably get dizzy because it is currently known as one of the messiest of its kind in the whole world. But this city is now looking at a new kind of waste management system and they are planning this so that they will be one with the greenest.
What they did is they created a group known as the Waste Commission. They will also be working on creating processing centers that are high-tech. These will be the ones responsible for dealing with …read more