Pacific Airport Group to Invest MXN2.77 B. Through 2014

Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico (PAC) said Wednesday that government regulators have approved a 2.77-billion-peso ($217.6 million) capital-expenditure budget for the next five years.

For the 2010-2014 period, the company said it will invest MXN819.6 million in its busiest airport, in the western city of Guadalajara.

The airport in the Pacific resort of Los Cabos will receive the second-highest investment, at MXN754.6 million.

The company, known as GAP, is one of Mexico's three publicly traded airport operators.

Its passenger traffic fell 13.3% last year from 2008 to 19.29 million. GAP's locally traded B shares closed 0.5% higher Wednesday at MXN43.13.

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Carolyn Izzo Int. Communications to Promote Solmar Corporate Brand

Carolyn Izzo Integrated Communications (CIIC), announced today their partnership with Solmar Hotels & Resorts. CIIC will be working with this impressive collection of Los Cabos hotels to further enhance the brand, which already enjoys a well-established reputation as leaders in the development of this renowned resort destination with the opening of  Solmar Suites in 1974. Additionally, CIIC will launch the group's latest endeavor, the Grand Solmar Land's End Resort & Spa which will celebrate it's grand opening in 2011.

CIIC strives to raise awareness of the Solmar Hotels & Resorts corporate brand through an aggressive, highly creative PR campaign that will focus on strategic media relations to traditional as well as emerging media channels, a business-to-business program featuring a quarterly travel industry newsletter, tactical communication via social networks, press trips, media tours, events and more. The ultimate goal is to position Solmar Hotels & Resorts to the US market as the contemporary standard of unparallel value, service and hospitality in Los Cabos.

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Rihanna & Matt Kemp: Cabo Cuddling

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Rihanna and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp continue to enjoy their vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Wednesday (January 6).

The 21-year-old Barbadian singer has been spotted around Cabo San Lucas publicly kissing the baseball pro.

People recently shared some fun facts about Riri’s new beau.

Matt made $5 million last year playing for the Dodgers where he won the Silver Slugger award for his hitting and the Golden Glove for his fielding. The 6-foot-2 slugger is also known as “the Bison” among the baseball world and was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma

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"Bury" Your BlackBerry in the Sand of Los Cabos

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If you needed more proof of our pronounced love-hate relationship with our communication devices, the Marquis Los Cabos Resort invites its arriving guests to participate in a "BlackBerry Burial Ceremony."

After a de rigeur welcome drink and opportunity to avail yourself of a cool towel, you head out to the beach and bury your phone in the sand.

Now, the only thing that seems worse for an electronic device than sand burial is the dreaded toilet dunking, but luckily this ceremony is just a ritual.*

First, your smart phone is placed in a protective case -- a coffin, as it happens. Then, you must go at least ten minutes without your phone while the spa director teaches you how to massage your over-used hands. Try not to panic.

Finally, you dig out your phone -- I'm imagining a frantic, sand-flinging scene -- and then you get your phone back again to tell everyone on Facebook or Twitter what you've done.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jonas enjoying their Honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas

Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle have been vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for their honeymoon. They had their wedding date on December 19^th, 2009.

The wedding almost didn't happen due to bad weather but it didn't, and the couple was married along with 400 guests in attendance in Long Island, New York.

Kevin had his brothers, Nick and Joe to be his best men.

Disney's Demi Lovato was also in attendance at the wedding. She is starring is a sequel movie with Joe Jonas called Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.

 

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Baja Connection

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There's a strong, and ever-growing connection between Summit and Eagle Counties and the Mexican Baja. Many familiar mountain faces are down in Baja California Sur: the Los Cabos area, and farther north to Pescadero and Todos Santos.

Jim Brinkerhoff, a developer from Edwards, has already tapped into this market with his beautiful Palm Orchard property. This Pacific ocean-front spot is nearly 20 acres of pristine, specimen palm trees and plants. A stretch of magnificent, nearly private beach extends more than a half-mile north and south, punctuated at each end with world-class surf breaks at San Pedrito and Los Cerritos. As he develops this next-generation, residential resort, he'll be developing a lifestyle as well.

The weather is perfect every day — sunny, breezy, dry and mild temperatures throughout most of the year. After years of shoveling snow, it's a reward to be able to live here. There are fields of crops and calla lilies. Whales breach and the sun sets right at your feet. There's art, crafts and live music, as well as fresh fish, vegetables, great dining and lots of options for a small town.

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Starts the second stage of State Olympics

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Following a meeting to organize the second stage of the State Olympic Organizing Committee scheduled to perform sporting activities in the municipality of Los Cabos for the month of January.

Well informed, the city's director of Sports, Romulo Nuñez, who said the same activities will be developed in different parts of town such as San Jose del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Miraflores and Santiago, with the assistance of 500 athletes, approximately.

He also said, that cycling is the discipline with which to start the second stage of the Olympiad, from 9 January with the arrival of the sports quota of that discipline.

Similarly noted that within the present cycling speed test of 10 to 14 January at the Olympic Velodrome in San Jose del Cabo, and track the same Jan. 14, but at the Sports Unit in Santa Rosa.

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One million passengers arrived at SJC International Airport

One million passengers arrived at the International Airport San Jose del Cabo, in the corresponding period in 2009. This was announced by Paul Martin Chavez Zazueta, general director of the airport, that the year end figure recorded just above one million passengers.

He said that the activity of the airport of San Jose del Cabo, in what corresponds to 2009 the closure was below 1'486,000 passengers, who have succeeded at the airport during the year before.

He announced that a very important fact that should be noted was that 36% of operations within the airport runway, were used by executive jets and this is the highest percentage in Mexico that represents that Los Cabos, sees a level of visitors from high purchasing power.

Finally, Chavez Zazueta announced that as security is concerned there has been progress in this area and maintain better control of the aircraft both in the review for passengers before boarding, and arrival at port that provides security and reliability to travelers.

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A Jewish Community Grows In Cabo San Lucas - News - Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters

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Once a week, Benzion Hershcovich leaves his house at the crack of dawn while his wife and children are still asleep. The twenty-something rabbi heads out to a local dairy farm where he gets kosher milk.

Hershcovich and his wife Sonia are Chabad representatives to the fishing village of Cabo San Lucas, on the tip of Mexico's Baja California.

Once a relatively sleepy town, Cabo has become Mexico's premier vacation hot spot. The city draws some one million vacationers each year who come to enjoy its timeshare homes, golf courses and beaches. Among the visitors are thousands of Jewish travelers.

Cabo is also home to a small Jewish population of about 400. But because the local population consists mostly of expats from Mexico City, Argentina, Israel and the States, there was little sense of community among the city’s Jews.

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Interval International Adds Mexico Resort to its Network

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Interval International has announced that Welk Resorts Cabo - Sirena del Mar has joined its global holiday exchange network.

Timeshare owners have learned that it is the sixth Welk property to have become part of Interval's network.

The resort overlooks the Sea of Cortez, close to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, and offers timeshare owners numerous facilities, including two pools, a spa, thatched palapas as well as a fire pit.

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Ex-World Health CEO Marc Roup to give up assets

As the CEO of World Health Alternatives Inc., Marc Roup had wealth and a vacation home in Mexico.

Now, he's broke.

The former partner in the defunct medical staffing firm from Wilkins last week agreed to turn over $5.4 million in assets to the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a scheme to defraud investors that led to the indictment of his partner.

The SEC says Roup, of Murrysville, doesn't have anywhere near that amount of money and wants a federal judge to appoint a receiver to sell what assets Roup has.

Those assets include a vacation home in Los Cabos, Mexico, along with the furnishings. Los Cabos is part of Cabo San Lucas and is located along the Sea of Cortes.

Roup's other assets include a brokerage account, custom motorcycle, and expensive men's and women's watches, bracelets and necklaces, including upscale brands Rolex, Breitling, Bvlgari and Girard Perregaux, according to an inventory filed Wednesday by the SEC in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

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Airlines offer low prices again

More great airfares are being offered. The latest comes from United which is offering fares for as low $55.

You can go from SFO to lax for that price, or up to Seattle for $117.

If you are looking for sun and beaches, you can get to Los Cabos for $125.

All prices are for each way, so double them for round trips.

Also when checking flights, also look at what other airlines are offering most sales are matched by at least one other airline.

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DIF in 2009 provides 3 thousand 569 health services

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"Coordination Municipal Healthcare System for Integral Family Development DIF attended 3 thousand 569 services including total consultations, studies with specialization and inter-consults requested the increased demand within the public fit," said Castro Carolina Heart DIF president Los Cabos.

The head of the municipal institution noted that consultations were awarded overall in San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, resulting in a total of 3 thousand 168 consultations with problems in the upper and lower respiratory tract, gastrointestinal and others.

About requested studies with various specialties in the course of 2009, received about 282 applications, to channel capital city hospitals in the state or inside the country, this in order that the person be attended by specialists, Carolina Castro said.

DIF President mentioned that in the DIF system facilities in Cabo San Lucas, the county seat, the two provided 119 interconsultations.

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No delays in flights from Airport despite new security measures

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The Director General of the International Airport of San Jose del Cabo said that the local central airport has not been so far affected or flight delays by the extreme security measures that have been requested by the U.S. government for aircraft traveling into its territory from Mexico after the failed bomb attacks in Detroit last week.

In an interview with Tribune, Paul Martin Chavez Zazueta reported that since last Saturday following the incident mentioned, the Pacific Airports Group and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation informed the local airport of the new security measures requested by the Government United States by the FWA and TSA for flights to its territory, which he said have been fulfilled to the letter.

Indicated that among the measures included not allowing liquids to enter on board any aircraft, also a comprehensive staff review passenger per passenger.

The measures include, she said, the ban on passengers up some electronic devices to the passenger cabin, having to save them during a trip in your suitcase in the baggage area of the plane.

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Kevin Jonas' Honeymoon Hideaway

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He's not the first celebrity honeymoon groom to make his way to Mexico's One & Only Palmilla Resort (Eli Manning preceded him last year), but Kevin Jonas -- one third of the puppyish boy band -- is the latest.

After a large and lavish wedding in New York, the new couple flew to Cabo San Lucas. There the oldest Jonas Brother was, presumably, relieved of the chastity vow he made with his brothers.

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Where to set the turtles free; At a Mexican resort...

Where to set the turtles free; At a Mexican resort, guests learn that nature's laws apply to even the most adorable creatures

On a Thursday evening in September, close to sunset on a silky sand beach in Mexico, about 30 resort guests stood around in bare feet, some holding glasses of chilled white wine. As the sky warmed to peachy pink tones darted by deep purple clouds, we waited patiently to make a small contribution to the natural world from which we so liberally take. Who knew liberating baby turtles would be so romantic?

Every year, Olive Ridley sea turtles — also known as Golfina turtles — lay hundreds of eggs in multiple nests on the beach in front of Marquis Los Cabos, an oceanfront resort on the tip of the Baja California peninsula, where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean. The resort is state-certified as a sea turtle watch and rescue site, and the eggs are protected from the time they're laid until they hatch in late September through mid-October. The gestation period is approximately 45 days, and just before they're due, Marquis employees take them inside to protect them from predators.

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Mothers among the sword and the wall

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They close the first kindergarten because of the insurance policy for 10 million pesos required by the IMSS. In San Jose del Cabo, parents met with the warning: "If you want your child to continue attending, from the first of January you will have to pay 2 thousand 550 pesos a month. The nursery operated as a surrogate so now it will do so particular. "It's a benefit we had and do not know what will happen to our children in January and with payments that are not financially able to cover, say moms. The stay will be subrogated to 136 children attending.

Hundred working mothers in this county seat are among "the sword and the wall" as they have only three days to find a place to leave their children from the first of January.

Now they ask, go to work or care for their children?

And it's that the child stay "La Selva in Cape" of the colony's Zacatal, surrogate of the IMSS, which cared for their young while went to work, could not renew the contract with the federal agency by the high requirements for the operation of these nursery set by the Institute following the tragedy at ABC Day Nursery of Hermosillo, Sonora; time, a liability policy of 10 million pesos that are required.

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Beke, Van Vlerken take inaugural Cozumel titles

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Rutger Beke was strong throughout the day and cruisied to a win in the inaugural Ironman Cozumel. The Belgian was 16th out of the water in 46:38, suggesting the swim leg was short of the advertised 2.4 miles. But his bike ride was the day's third fastest at 4:37:27, and his race-best 2:53:56 marathon sealed the deal for the win in 8:18:40. Leading up to the race Beke carefully said during an Ironman.com interview: "With everything that has happened over the year I'm glad to be fit and hoping for a great race." It appears that his hopes certainly came true.

Ukraine's Viktor Zyemstev finished second in 8:29:10 and Sebastian Pedraza from Italy was third in 8:33:28.

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Journalist killed in Mexico, 12th case in 2009

MEXICO CITY -- A journalist was gunned down this week as he left a holiday party in the Mexican Caribbean resort town of Tulum, human rights officials and an international media group said Friday, bringing to 12 the number of reporters killed this year in the country.

Alberto Velazquez of the newspaper Expresiones de Tulum was killed on Tuesday.

Velazquez had written articles critical of local officials, and his paper had received threats, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. In a statement, the group quoted colleagues as saying Velazquez was shot by a gunman on a motorcycle, and they believed it was related to his reporting.

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Welk resort joins Interval International

Welk Resorts Cabo – Sirena del Mar has joined Interval International’s vacation exchange network.

It’s the sixth Welk property to join the Miami-based provider of vacation services.

Sirena del Mar, which is located near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, is the first international location in the Welk Resorts portfolio, which was launched by entertainer Lawrence Welk.

The resort’s Web site says there are 36 villas available for owners, renters and exchangers.

Interval International (NASDAQ: IILG) said buildout will take place in five phases for a total of 222 units with a range of configurations, including one-bedroom junior suites.

Interval has a network of about 2,500 resorts in more than 75 countries and offers its resort clients and about 2 million member families.

Interval shares closed Monday at $12.77. No 52-week high/low information was available.

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Cabo San Lucas striped-marlin bite breaks wide-open | Outposts | Los Angeles Times

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the undisputed striped marlin capital of the world, is once again living up to that reputation.

The bite is a bit late this season, but with the recent cold snap the scrappy billfish seemed to flood into an area north of Cabo on the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula.

"It was as if somebody flipped the switch to winter ... and the cooler water has bought mackerel, the bait of choice for striped marlin," said a post on the Pisces Sportfishing blog.

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Cermele: Would You Keep an Albino Gamefish? | Field & Stream

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In the world of deer hunting, there is much debate over the shooting of albino bucks. Some hunters view them as rare trophies, while I know others that abide by a Native American legend that says if you shoot an albino, you'll never shoot another buck again. Though albino bucks are rare, they're not nearly as rare as large albino gamefish.

Perhaps you don't see albino fish as often simply because their lack of color means zero camouflage, making it that much easier for birds and bigger fish to pick them out of rivers and oceans at a young age. But every once in a while, I'll come across a photo like the one above. This albino sailfish was caught just recently off Cabo San Lucas. According to the story in the Los Angeles Times, there was some back-and-forth banter on the boat regarding whether to keep or release it. In the end, angler Matt Dye opted to let the fish go.

I think if I caught such a fish, I'd have to do the same thing. You have to appreciate the fact that the fish grew to adulthood with all odds against it. At the same time, I wouldn't fault anyone for taking what would surely be a once-in-a-lifetime catch.

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