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Cancun will host the Global Flu Summit in Mexico, from July 1 to 3, 2009, which is expected to benefit the country and its tourism industry, said Cancun real estate agents, RE/MAX Investment Properties, today.
Despite a new theory that swine flu may have originated in Asia, Mexico can still show the world how fast recovery [...]

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This month Los Angeles Times published an opinion editorial article about how American travelers can be good neighbors to Mexico by choosing this country as a vacation destination once again. 
The author, Andrés Martinez is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who has expressed that Mexico now needs help to reactivate its tourism sector after [...]

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President Felipe Calderon asked the Minister of Health José Angel Cordova to notify as soon as the Mexican laboratories have ready the vaccine against Swine Flu H1N1 virus, or even head on to purchase it through international markets.
The efforts and resources that have been focused on the production of the Influenza vaccine should not cease [...]

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After the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, Mexican the Mexican government recently launched an estimated $92 million public relations campaign to promote and reactivate tourism.
Some of the vacation destinations that were badly affected by Mexico´s health contingency from influenza and economic downturn include Cancun and Riviera Maya, which are one of the leading headquarters for [...]

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Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History has signed an agreement with Google Mexico to promote archaeological and historical sites in a bid to revive tourism following the swine flu epidemic.
The plan uses several elements of the Google platform, including placing maps of archaeological sites and directions to them on Google Earth.
The institute has started [...]

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Addressing an audience of entrepreneurs from the Tourism Sector, President Felipe Calderón said he was convinced that the leadership, participation and unity of society as a whole is crucial to the country’s current situation, referring to the three main challenges Mexicans have had to face: the battle fought against organized crime, the effects of the [...]

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It might just be the perfect time to head south of the U.S. border: Sure, swine flu is still alive—in fact, it’s now a global pandemic—but chances of contracting it in Mexico, where the outbreak was first detected, are probably at their lowest.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the epidemic peaked [...]

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The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón has made the official call out to the world, to revive its tourism industry. Vive Mexico (which translates as Live Mexico) is a 92 million dollar campaign that looks to bring back international tourism and Mexican visitors to the country´s vacation destinations.
More than a campaign some call Vive Mexico [...]

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A survey carried out by Visa confirms that only 7% of US tourists changed their plans to travel to Mexico due to the influenza outbreak. Visa, one of the most renowned credit card companies, made a survey to 1,001 US inhabitants over 18 years old.
The swine flu epidemic registered last month that spread worldwide, didn´t [...]

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The State Governor of Quintana Roo, Felix Gonzalez Canto met on Monday with the British Ambassador of Mexico, Giles Paxman who confirmed the commitment of the British government to assist the tourist promotion of Quintana Roo in the European Union.
This was carried out together with a series of activities hosted by the State Government to [...]

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