When it comes to tourist information on the Web, Mexico fills short.Mexican officials boast that tourism is one of the country's leading sources of income, so it comes as a surprise to see that so many government tourism websites are either obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. or bereft of content. When I first reviewed tourism websites in 1998, I noted that on-line information about Mexican tourism tends to be a glitzy glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. review of the country's coastal resorts. The Internet is used as a brochure and not a particularly good one. Unfortunately, that reflection still holds true, and if anything, the official websites have only gotten worse. These sites seem plagued by a lack of continuity (see Safemexico.com below) or the absence of links to other government agencies (particularly at the state and municipal level), to travel providers or even to other areas within their own organization. One such example is the Tianguis Turistico Website. A web search reveals that the 2000 Website, www.tianguisacapulco.com.mx, has no link to the 2001 event (www.tianguisacapulco.com). It's easy to get lost on the Web, but there is no reason why we should lose our way within a tourism website! VISITMEXICO.COM www.visitmexico.com *** (out of 5 *) This multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. site is the most useful of the current stock of official websites, but even so, it doesn't have much substance. Animation introduces the site, which slows the connection. Also, it's unclear who runs the site or what its purpose is. The press center (www.visitmexicopress.com) is two months out-of-date and there is no directory of outside links (such as Mexican travel agents, tourism associations or individual guides). On the plus side, there are nice pictures. No doubt this site looks lovely on a CD-Rom, but as a website it's simply too slow to be useful to travelers or investors. SECRETARIAT Secretariat, 1970–89, thoroughbred race horse. Trained by Lucien Laurin and ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes to capture the Triple Crown in 1973. Secretariat (foaled 1970) U.S. OF TOURISM mexico-travel.com ** The Presidencia website (www.precisa.gob.mx/index.php) recognizes Mexico-travel.com as the official Sectur website though it has not been updated since last year. While current information is lacking, the site offers an abundance Abundance See also Fertility. Amalthea’s horn horn of Zeus’s nurse-goat which became a cornucopia. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 19] cornucopia conical receptacle which symbolizes abundance. [Rom. Myth. of information that requires surfing surfing, sport of gliding toward the shore on a breaking wave. Surfers originally used long, cumbersome wooden boards but now ride lightweight synthetic boards that allow a greater degree of maneuverability. the site's search engine. Most useful for researchers, the site has great potential if it is ever updated. FONATUR FONATUR Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (México) www.fonatur.gob mx/ * Mexico's "Tourism Business Center" is another lackluster lack·lus·ter adj. Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull. See Synonyms at dull. Adj. 1. lackluster - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" website from a prestigious and influential government entity: The home page is a mass of dead links. In fact, the only two links that work are to land sales (www.fonatur.gob.mx/frames/hom/nofertas/index.html) and to a page about Fonatur (www.fonatur.gob.mx/frames/hom/...\framesfona_p.html) that only prompts an error message. I was hoping to find press releases, but the site doesn't have a single email contact. MEXICO'S TOURISM PROMOTION BOARD www.cptm-administracion.com.mx/ * This website has absolutely no content--or none that can be accessed from the home page. The Board--or Consejo--is a fairly new entity in Mexico and perhaps it is only a matter of time before the links work. Still, for a promotional entity, this site is a big disappointment. DON'T VISIT THIS SITE AT WORK! Safemexico.com In 1999 Sectur and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most company Edelman made great fanfare about an innovative website that briefed travelers about safety issues in Mexico The site provided a useful too. The only problem was that the site was never updated. Until early 2001, Safemexico.com still boasted a picture of smiling ex-Tourism Secretary Oscar Espinoza (currently facing a legal battle on embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. charges) on its home page. The site has since come down, but curiously, the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. now serves as a gateway to a soft porn website. iQue verguenzo! Ron Mader is the author of the guidebook Mexico: Adventures in Nature and host of the popular Planeta.com: Eco Travels in the Americas website (www.planeta.com). |
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