Vallarta Gay Clinic, Puerto Vallarta’s health clinic for the LGBT Community, is holding its Grand Opening open house on Friday, March 17, 2023, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. The party is open to the public, and community legend Hedda Lettuce will lead the official Rainbow Ribbon Cutting at 6:00 pm.

The Puerto Vallarta International Airport continued its great start to the year in February with an almost 32% increase in the number of passengers compared to the same month of 2022. With this, PVR once again welcomed more passengers than at any other air terminal operated by Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP).

The prestigious American interior design and lifestyle magazine, Elle Decor, ranked The World's 20 Most Beautiful Cities to Visit in Your Lifetime, and Puerto Vallarta appears as the tenth best destination on this list, above Lucerne, Switzerland; Madrid, Spain; Cartagena, Colombia; Venice, Italy and Cork, Ireland, among others.

The Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust recently announced that Viva Aerobus has increased the number of available flights between Guadalajara and this tourist destination. The low-cost airline, which previously offered 7 flights a week, is now operating 16 weekly flights.

With 13,263 new jobs registered with the Mexican Social Security Institute in February, a total of 31,557 new jobs were created in Jalisco in the first 2 months of the year. During this period, 287,573 new job openings were recorded nationwide, of which Jalisco contributed 11%.

With Semana Santa just around the corner, the Puerto Vallarta tourism sector is preparing for the massive arrival of visitors. Hoteliers are confident that occupancy rates will be similar to those registered a year ago, which vacillated between 85 and 90 percent.

Good news for Puerto Vallarta residents and visitors. The municipal government negotiated a deal with the telecommunications company Izzi to install open and free internet networks in high-traffic areas, including the Malecón, and they are now up and running!

Another section of the highway that will eventually create a shortcut from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta opened on March 1. This 30.8 kilometer stretch between La Florida and La Cruz de Huanacaxtle saves travelers another 30 minutes and further reduces travel time between this port city and the capital of Jalisco.

Puerto Vallarta will welcome twenty-two cruise ships in March, according to the API’s arrival calendar. This is in addition to the Mexican Navy ship Buque Zapoteco MI, which will berth in our port March 13-15, and the Attessa V super yacht, which will remain through March 16.

Despite the fact that cars whose license plates end with a 1 were required to have their vehicles inspected by February 28, the Responsible Vehicle Verification Center located at Av. Francisco Medina Ascencio 244 in Puerto Vallarta has seen very few drivers complying with the requirement.