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Club Med offers Creactive facilities
where kids can use a trampoline,
juggle or do a trapeze act.

Rendering of accommodations at Hard Rock Hotel Los Cabos.

will be the biggest airport in the world. We
keep improving our destination in order to
get more tourists.
"In recent weeks, we have faced a relevant
challenge of our image outside of this
country. The recent travel alert for Mexico
by the U.S. State Department highlighted
the concern for safety in our state. Let me
be clear, my administration is committed to
keeping our cities safe and calm not just for
visitors, but for the whole population, and for
that we are doing a great effort to strengthen
the effort of our police station, and we are
implementing the installation of more than
3,000 video cameras across the state. This
will help prevent crime and strengthen our
security for us and those who visit us."
De la Madrid Cordero added, "We must
keep diversifying our tourism.... It's been
very successful the image of sun and sand,
but we are generating new products, new
theme parks, and recently announced the
Amikoo $800 million project, and more than
10,000 rooms in construction this year. And
add cultural tourism to that. It's the best of
our country. We have to generate tourism
projects where the visitors can deal more
with our people. Tourism should be based on
the experience with us-the quality and the
warm treatment...and that's where we have
to make better proposals."

million tourists to the area. That's a 13 percent
increase from the same period in 2016. In
addition, a recent American Express Travel
study rated Mazatlan as one of the hottest
destinations for international travel this past
fall, coming in at number four in the world;
as well as the fourth hottest trending
destination for fall/winter travel, ahead of
Paris and London.
"In the past few years, Mazatlan has evolved
as a destination," says Marco Antonio Garcia
Castro, secretary of tourism for the state
of Sinaloa. "Recognizing the wealth of our
culture and history, we have acted quickly to
preserve this treasure for future generations.
The transformation that visitors are presently
experiencing in Mazatlan from the renewal
of our Centro Historico, the refreshing of
monuments and parks throughout the city, the
addition of a bike path and facelift of our 13mile long beachside promenade-Malecon-
to renewing our landmark tallest working
lighthouse in the world, Mazatlan is proudly
presenting a new face to the world."
New hotels opening up in Mazatlan include a
Courtyard by Marriott, Park Inn by Radisson
Mazatlan and Ibis, near the convention center.
"A great part of our success can be attributed
to the marketing partners that have believed in
us through the years, including travel agents,"
says Garcia Castro.

Mazatlan

Puerto Vallarta & Riviera Nayarit

Mazatlan reported an increase in tourism,
noting that international tourism is up 8
percent for 2017, highlighting that the
summer season brought more than a half-

Next year marks the 100th anniversary
of Puerto Vallarta's establishment as a
municipality. Throughout the year, Puerto
Vallarta will offer visitors the opportunity

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to take part in many celebrations around
the anniversary.
"Puerto Vallarta is dedicated to preserving
its perfect balance of natural beauty,
protected historic center and modern
infrastructure, while sustainably growing our
tourism offers and services, all cohabiting
within a small area. That means that we are
quite careful when it comes to new hotel
and resort developments and expansions,"
says Javier Aranda Pedrero, director of
the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Board. "We
focus primarily on attracting investments to
renovate existing properties into high-end
boutique hotels and small resorts, as well as
construction of small/medium-size hotels
catering to a specific type of traveler. When
it comes to large resort expansions, again
the focus is on the overhaul of existing
buildings which may have been former
hotels or apartment buildings or identifying
underdeveloped areas for new investments."
Case in point: the 54-room Hotel Amapa,
located one block from Playa Los Muertos,
is an existing hotel that is undergoing
renovations and being converted into a
minimalist-style hotel.
Puerto Vallarta's cruise port is currently
undergoing a modernization that includes
the addition of a shopping center,
restaurants, a tequila factory, art gallery and
a new passenger terminal, as well as a new
$10.2 million aquarium.
Its marina is also undergoing renovations,
and once completed in March 2018 it will be
able to receive large yachts, just in time for
the Mexican Regatta March 10-17, 2018.
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