Aeromexico will host the 73rd IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Cancun, Mexico from 4-6 June 2017.IATA’s member airlines accepted Aeromexico’s invitation …
North America
Playa Espiritu resort project takes shape near Mazatlan
The first stage of Playa Espiritu is slated to open by the end of 2018.A massive Mazatlan-area resort project that has been in the works since 2008 has been guaranteed funding from the Mexican governm…
Mexican Tourism encourages more domestic travel
Tourism in Mexico has shown a significant increase last year and is expected to gain momentum in the next five years. The country recorded 83.2 million domestic travellers in 2015, resulting in an ann…
Skift CMO Interviews: Dallas Tourism Redefines Its Image Around Local and Luxury
This is the latest interview in the series.Visit Dallas launched a new website last month that organizes the city by neighborhoods in order to provide a more local perspective of the city to help attr…
Bourbon Tourism Has Big Lessons for Kentucky Horse Racing Season
A tour group pauses in front of a statue of Seattle Slew during a tour of Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky. Some of the best-known farms in Kentucky’s scenic horse country are borrowing from an…
Interview: Carnival President on Why ‘We Are America’s Cruise Line’
Christine Duffy was just a couple weeks into her new job as president of Carnival Cruise Line last year, surrounded by members of the military and a country music star in Texas, when she had a realiza…
Chicago’s Domestic Tourist Arrivals Hit Record 51 Million in 2015
The number of domestic visitors to Chicago hit a record last year, reaching nearly 51 million.That was close to a 5 percent increase over the previous year.An announcement Tuesday by Mayor Rahm Emanue…
Amateur Makes Tourism Ad After Rhode Island’s Iceland Fail
An oral surgeon made a Rhode Island tourism ad and paid for it to air on television following the botched rollout of the state’s own tourism campaign that featured an image of Iceland.A tourism …
Carnival Says It Has Permission to Sail to Cuba With All Guests, Cubans Included
After days of will-they or won’t-they, Carnival Corp. announced Friday morning that the cruise line will sail to Cuba on May 1 as planned — with Cuban-born passengers, which wasn’t a…
What It Meant for Cleveland and Philadelphia to Win National Political Conventions
According to the tourism and convention bureaus in Philadelphia and Cleveland, their public-private partnerships, new urban infrastructure, and surging knowledge-based economies are why they won their…