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The Sun
April 21, 2018
Cancun police have no record of any prior attack involving personal watercraft in the city, though assailants have been known to use the vehicles in Acapulco, on the other side of the country. In 2016, a gunman killed a sarong vendor on the beach there and then fled on a water scooter. Earlier this week, aÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
April 21, 2018
Gunmen on water scooters shot at a roving vendor on a beach in Cancun's glittering hotel zone Thursday, an incident believed to be unprecedented for the Mexican resort city. The vendor ran for safety inside a restaurant and was not hurt. Nobody was wounded. According to a police report, the afternoonÃâà...
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
April 17, 2018
Timberly Swier says she was fired after she complained about executives who were grabbing women employees during a rewards trip to Cancun, Mexico. Swier says a company executive who yelled "Go big or go home!" encouraged employees to go skinny dipping during the trip, which rewarded highÃâà...
NBC4i.com
April 13, 2018
AUSTIN, TX (KXAN) - A rash of homicides is raising concerns about the safety of tourists in the popular getaway destination of Cancun, Mexico. In a span of 36 hours, 14 people were killed in the city. "Cancun is considered an area where the American people should exercise some caution," advised CarlosÃâà...
Travel Weekly
April 3, 2018
One of the first hotels to open as part of this development will be the Hotel Planet Hollywood Cancun, which will have 898 rooms. The hotel will be composed of three sections of rooms: one for adults only, one called Planet Hollywood, and a VIP section. There will also be a central square, a sports area andÃâà...
Riviera Maya News
March 31, 2018
Cancun, Q.R. — The Ministry of Tourism says that nearly a million visitors have arrived throughout the state for the Easter holidays and that the figures are an increase over last year. Hundreds of thousands of national and foreign visitors continue to arrive to Cancun and Riviera Maya for Easter holidays.
TIME
March 3, 2018
The U.S. issued a security alert after explosives were found aboard a passenger ferry near the beach resort of Cancun in Mexico, one week after a blast on a boat owned by the same person injured dozens of tourists. U.S. government employees are prohibited from using all tourist ferries in Cozumel andÃâà...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
A TUI flight from Manchester, United Kingdom headed to Cancun, Mexico was forced to divert from its path after the aircraft's cockpit window shattered mid-flight. Flight BY174 had traveled as far as Dublin, Ireland but was forced to turn back to London as a safety precaution, The Daily Mail reported.
SFGate
February 15, 2018
Budget-conscious fliers looking to travel from the Bay Area to a pair of popular destinations in Mexico will soon have a new airline to choose from. Mexico City-based low-cost carrier Interjet began selling tickets today for its recently announced flights from SFO to Cancun and Guadalajara. It's a good thingÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
February 14, 2018
Joining her husband, fitness model Dana Isaiah, on a beachy babymoon, the singer and actress stayed at the Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach in Cancun, Mexico, this past weekend. The couple spent the bulk of their time at the resort's HydroSpa and lounging around their own pool at the PresidentialÃâà...
Travel Agent
December 31, 1999
Reports of an extremely violent 36 hours in Cancun earlier this month are making the rounds in the U.S. consumer media this week. Stemming from a report posted April 6 by local Spanish-language news provider Noticaribe, the story was picked up by local news outlets such as WGN9 in Chicago andÃâà...
Yahoo Finance
December 31, 1999
Tourists are starting to fear for their safety after a string of horrific murders in Cancun, Mexico. On April 4-5, the popular tourist destination experienced 14 homicides over the span of 36 hours. The deaths occurred in six different incidents and are believed to be targeted and tied to organized crime.
CNN
December 31, 1999
(CNN) — Like most great destinations in Mexico (see also: Tulum), Isla Mujeres started out as something of a secret: a small, sleepy island just off the coast of Cancun with sugary soft white-sand beaches, sweeping coastlines and fewer people than the busy shores of Cancun's hotel zone. But good newsÃâà...
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