Mack Rutherford, a 17-year-old Belgian-British pilot looking to set a new world record for being the youngest person to fly solo around the world, landed at the Puerto Vallarta International Airport on Tuesday. To meet the requirements established by the Guinness Book of World Records, Mack must visit 52 countries on five continents.
Providing payment alternatives to their customers, SEAPAL Vallarta has enabled an express payment system that uses a QR code on customers' printed or digital service receipts. This enables users to pay their water bills with any credit or debit card from a mobile phone.
Attention U.S. citizens in Mexico! If you have been putting off registering to vote this calendar year, now is the time. This mid-term election will decide the balance of Congress, and the direction our nation will go. Register at votefromabroad.org or in person at various locations in Puerto Vallarta this month.
Puerto Vallarta remains one of national and international tourists' favorite beach vacation destinations, as proven by the number of visitors that arrived during the first half of the year. A record 3,125,300 people flew into PVR during the first 6 months of 2022, compared to 2,801,900 in the same period of 2019.
Puerto Vallarta has been nominated for six 2022 Travvy Awards, which recognize the best in tourism worldwide. Travel industry experts nominated Vallarta for the following categories in Mexico: Best Destination, Best Tourism Board, Best Academic Program for Travel Agents, Best Culinary Destination, Best Wedding and Best Honeymoon Destination.
Puerto Vallarta has been enjoying an excellent summer vacation period with the arrival of thousands and thousands of visitors, both by land and by air, and very high hotel occupancy levels in July. According to the municipal tourism director, Ludwig Estrada Virgen, even more tourists are expected in August.
The rehabilitation and recalibration of the drinking water and drainage lines that SEAPAL Vallarta began on May 30 in the Emiliano Zapata neighborhood is nearing completion. The work, which has caused traffic restrictions on Basilio Badillo street between Olas Altas and Insurgentes, is expected to be completed by month's end.
Living up to their promise to serve the vulnerable in our community, on Tuesday, authorities from DIF Puerto Vallarta, Citizen Security, and the Jalisco Regional Prosecutor's Office toured the Romantic Zone and the Emiliano Zapata neighborhoods to find and offer assistance to homeless people.
The summer months have always been an extremely busy time for domestic tourism to Puerto Vallarta, with Mexicans escaping the heat of urban centers to enjoy the breezy beaches. For international tourists, summer was once considered 'low season', but over the last two years, it seems that low season is becoming a thing of the past.
With the summer vacation period underway, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) released the seawater evaluation results for 290 beaches in 75 tourist destinations. More than 98% met the criterion for recreational use, including all of the beaches in Puerto Vallarta and Nayarit.
