Yucatan, Mexico News

The National Association of Career Travel Agents will customize this year's conference program to include Destination Wedding and Honeymoon workshops for travel consultants to learn and become certified in this rapidly growing segment of the industry.

Just two months after Johnny Rockets opened at Merida International Airport, the rapidly expanding international franchise announces its second restaurant in the bustling capital city.

The hacienda era of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula enjoyed a heyday between the 18th and early 20th centuries with the exportation of a sisal-like fiber known as Henequen, made from abundant Agave plants.

Welcome to Casa Esplendida, the splendid Merida Mexico vacation rental that is perfectly located and comfortably furnished for the most pleasurable vacation of your life, any time of year.

MERIDA, YUCATAN. The American Society of Travel Agents Destination Expo 2014 took place last week in MA©rida; this flagship event was in Dubai in 2013, and will be in Marrakech, Morocco in 2015; this year however, it was all about the YucatA n.

MERIDA, YUCATAN. Under partly cloudy skies, on an afternoon as warm and sultry as only YucatA n can be in March, the MA©rida Music Festival 2014 took place on Saturday at Hacienda Dzibikak , just outside the beautiful colonial city of MA©rida, YucatA n.

Who would have guessed that the largest fish hatchery in Latin America would be in Hunucma, Yucatan? But the latest news is that a family business, located on only eight hectares in the Municipality of Hunucma, is now the largest exporter of ornamental aquatic plants in all of Latin America.

On Friday the NHTSA closed its investigation into two battery fires in Model S electric cars from Tesla Motors without requiring a recall.

Also, for the convenience of our readers and the online community generally, we have reproduced the complete Caribbean Net News archives from 2004 to 2010 here .

A crunchy taco from Northeast Portland Tex-Mex cantina La Taq, one of five Portland puffy tacos we found on a recent search.

The Sixth Summit of Heads of States and/or Government of the Association of Caribbean States takes place at the Yucatan Siglo XXI Convention Centre in Merida, Mexico from April 30. ACS Secretary General Alfonso Munera and Mexican Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina are listed to deliver remarks at the high-profile event.

In the southeast corner of Mexico, close to the Bay of Chetumal and the northern border of Belize, is Laguna Bacalar .

The scientists at the Meteorological Observatory at UADY are predicting an El Nino drought for this state, especially during the month of April and on through the summer and fall months.