The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Lynne Benoit, the Canadian Consular Agent in the Puerto Vallarta/Riviera Nayarit area for the past 20 years, has stepped down from her position as of January 1.
Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit are being jointly marketed under a 36-million-dollar campaign to promote Mexico’s tourist industry in the United States and Canada.
The 58th International Fishing Tournament of Puerto Vallarta takes place from November 13 to 16. There are major prizes up for grabs, including 180,000 pesos for whoever snags the biggest sailfish, another 150,000 pesos in the marlin category, 120,000 pesos for the biggest tuna and 80,000 pesos for the biggest mahi mahi.
The Centro Universitario de la Costa (CUC) this month celebrates 50 years since the filming of “The Night of the Iguana,” the movie that put the Pacific coast resort on the tourist map.
Two men from Zapopan were shot dead and another was left seriously injured after their car came under fire in downtown Puerto Vallarta last month.
The Puerto Vallarta police force has created a special department to focus on domestic violence.
Puerto Vallarta will host Engage Mexico, an annual social media conference, at the Sheraton Resort & Convention Center from November 14 to 17.
Twenty-seven hotels and restaurants are participating in Puerto Vallarta’s 19th International Gourmet Festival, which runs from November 14 to 23.
The announcement that the Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (National Infrastructure Fund or FNI) will become a partner in the Chalacatepec tourist complex – dubbed by Jalisco’s former governor as Mexico’s “New Cancun” – will contribute significantly to the economic regeneration of the region, says Francisco Ayon, president of the administrative committee of the Instituto de Pensiones del Estado de Jalisco (IPE), the pension fund for state workers, another of the investors in the polemic 1.3-billion-dollar project.
