by Ron Mader Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca – Planeta.com is organizing its most ambitious, innovative social web workshop March 19-22 titled All Travel is Local (Todos Viajes Son Locales). The workshop will contribute toward the movement toward local travel in all its forms — conscious travel, indigenous travel, cultural travel, eco travel, responsible travel — using [...]

by Ron Mader Mexico’s best tourism fair of the year is … not a tourism event per se but rather a ginormous expo of local folk and craft. Hosted by FONAES, the eponymous Expo FONAES is taking place now and over the weekend at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes. Check out the developing story [...]

by Ron Mader For those visiting Oaxaca, join the mezcal treasure hunt. Be forewarned: there might be lions. Mezcal Treasure Hunt View more presentations from ron mader

by Ron Mader There are an estimated 7 million indigenous Maya living in southern Mexico and northern Central America at the start of the 21st century. Look for an increase in tours and events focusing on the Maya in the coming year. Why? The Maya calendar is said to conclude its current cycle on December [...]

by Ron Mader Here’s the presentation made at the Responsible Tourism in Cities Conference: We Suck @ Collaboration View more presentations from ron mader The slideshow presentation addresses failure in many guises, including massive tree failure and online tourism promotion gone wrong in Mexico. Click through to access the YouTube video inside! It’s not all [...]

by Ron Mader The date is set for the Responsible Tourism in Cities Conference in Durban, South Africa: the morning of May 6, as part of the Indaba tourism conference. The event is presented by The City of Cape Town in partnership with Cape Town Tourism and South African Tourism. Media partners include Planeta.com, the [...]

by Ron Mader Mexico is not safe. Check out the following photos as evidence which show Pirates! in Oaxaca. Arghhh! It’s not even September 19. Oaxaca Guerreros versus Campeche Pirates in Game #2 tonight. Viva Baseball! Twitter http://twitter.com/piratascampeche http://twitter.com/guerrerosoax Next installment: lions