The Puerto Vallarta International Airport may soon be getting a new electronic immigration system (E-Gates) that will speed up wait times upon arrival. This technology will allow passengers on international flights to go through the migration procedures that are required to enter the country in minutes.

Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez on Monday officially appointed Rigoberto Flores Parra as the new Police Commissioner. He said that the time had come for Puerto Vallarta to resume having a police force that is purely civilian, citing the recognition it has earned as one of the safest cities in the country.

Every year in January, in the little town of Bucerías, Nayarit, there is a festival celebrating Our Lady of Peace, who is the patron of the local Catholic church. The fiesta lasts for nine days, during which the streets fill up with vendors selling everything under the sun, as well as live entertainment nightly.

With one in four people who were tested for Covid-19 at the Health Center in downtown Puerto Vallarta testing positive in the first weeks of January, the director of the VIII Sanitary Region, Jaime Álvarez Zayas, urges the population to get tested if you have any symptoms of respiratory infection.

According to Luis Romero Chávez, the president of Transporte Unido Costa Pacífico, 15 new buses have been added into circulation in Puerto Vallarta over the past couple of weeks, and 10 more units will arrive next week. These new buses are meant to better meet the needs of users on all of the different routes in the city.

In 2022, the Puerto Vallarta Maritime Terminal received 186 international cruise ships with a total of 458,318 passengers, excellent numbers that meant a very interesting upturn after the complicated period of the pandemic, which still affected cruise tourism in the previous year.

After taking a break for the Christmas holidays, on Monday, January 9, SEAPAL Vallarta resumed infrastructure works in the Emiliano Zapata neighborhood. The work is now being carried out at the intersection of Basilio Badillo and Pino Suárez, and it is expected that the project will take a total of three days to complete.

The Puerto Vallarta International Airport achieved the best passenger traffic in its history last year, with more than 6,200,000 travelers passing through its doors in 2022, according to the latest report from the air terminal's operator Grupo Aeroportuario Pacific. This represents an increase of 22.9% over the 5 million in 2019.

From January 7-21, the municipal government of Puerto Vallarta will set up natural Christmas trees collection points in different areas of the municipality, to prevent people from dumping them on public roads. The garbage collection trucks will not be able to collect them from where trash is usually left for pick-up.

Four of the thirty cruise ships that Puerto Vallarta will welcome this month have already arrived, the first being the Discovery Princess on Monday, which was followed by the first triple arrival of the year (the Norwegian Jewel, the Navigator of the Seas and the Norwegian Joy) on Tuesday.