I traveled to Mexico this past weekend, as a guest of Hacienda Tres Rios, an award-winning, eco-oriented all-inclusive resort north of Playa del Carmen. The trip marked my first time back on the Riviera Maya (the stretch of resorts running south of Cancun toward Tulum) since last year’s swine...

So you think that reminders of the swine flu are omnipresent in the US? In Mexico, where the pandemic originated last spring, people are still cautious, particularly around food. Protective face masks were common on vendors at Romeria, the sacred procession of the Lady of Zapapon that draws nearly 2...

There’s been some coughing and sneezing around the office lately – and a lot of suspicious glances and glares at the perpetuators. All of the articles that have been put out there on H1N1 have apparently done the trick (not to mention the fact that CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta fell prey...

Just days after the CDC lifted the swine flu travel advisory to Mexico last May, I visited Cancun and the Riviera Maya for a story on how the area was doing. Report is here. Things have changed since then – hotel occupancy rates in Cancun have nearly doubled from around 43% at Memorial Day to more...