LOT Polish Airlines will launch weekly direct flights from Katowice to Puerto Vallarta starting December 17, 2026. Running through March 2027, this Boeing 787 route brings around 1,200 Polish tourists monthly to explore warm beaches, local culture, and top attractions across Jalisco.
As the 2026–2027 Banderas Bay whale watching season approaches, nearly 700 guides and boat operators across Jalisco and Nayarit completed mandatory training. Under the motto "Less Speed = More Lives," the training emphasizes safer boating and whale conservation ahead of the December 8 season opening.
The Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust completed a targeted U.S. promotional tour across Phoenix, Denver, and Salt Lake City. By training over 120 key travel advisors, local officials aim to boost winter tourism and highlight direct flights to Mexico's popular coastal retreat.
Conservation teams at Puerto Vallarta’s Holi Beach turtle camp have released nearly 31,000 hatchlings into the Pacific this season. Working with RANA AC, city biologists collect shoreline nests to boost survival rates and protect these threatened sea turtles.
Puerto Vallarta has inaugurated the remodeled section of Avenida México that extends the Malecón, but debate over vehicle access continues. Some business owners favor keeping the area pedestrian-friendly, while motorists want it reopened. Officials are considering timed openings and closures before deciding.
Puerto Vallarta’s adapted sports program celebrated a standout performance at the 2026 CONADE National Paralympic Games as local para-athletes secured nine medals in Guadalajara. Their dominant six gold, three silver, showing was key to helping Jalisco claim its 21st consecutive overall national title.
Renovation work is underway at Puerto Vallarta’s Alfonso Díaz Santos Sports Complex, beginning with the La Bobadilla Olympic swimming pool. The broader project carries an estimated investment of 200 million pesos and aims to modernize the aging facilities over approximately two years.
Three men have been ordered to stand trial after being caught with an endangered Vallarta Casquito mud turtle and homemade traps near a Puerto Vallarta wetland. The arrest marks a major step in protecting this rare species, found only in the Banderas Bay region.
More than 800 students at Solidaridad Elementary School in Ixtapa now have direct access to clean drinking water following the installation of a new school drinking fountain. Mayor Luis Munguía and SEAPAL Director Carlos Ruiz joined students for the inaguration.
Quick action by police and alert bystanders led to the arrest of a 20-year-old man who snatched a purse from two California tourists in downtown Puerto Vallarta. Officers recovered all stolen items and handed the suspect over to local prosecutors for legal processing.
