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Article: My port or yours? A Mexican engineer's ship has come in--and it's loaded with cash-laden tourists.(Cruising)
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- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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New Yorker Amanda Megibow clutches jewelry purchases as her husband, Andrew, squeezes into a pair of leather cowboy boots. The Megibows and their three young children are on a US$6,000 spending spree in Mexico's newest cruise port, cashing in on their prize for being the 1 millionth passengers to step ashore.
They're at Puerto Costa Maya, a booming cruise destination in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula that did not exist four years ago. Since this privately financed port began taking its first ships in February 2001, the former patch of scrubland near the tiny fishing village of Majahual has grown into one of the Caribbean's most important and fastest-growing cruise ...
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Article: Mexican Gov't Backs 'Costa Maya' Low-Density Resort ...
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... ... pushing hard to see that a major low-density resort project, Costa Maya, planned for the country's southeast, near Belize, succeeds ... essentially, Cancun and surrounds), Celis reported. The Costa Maya development reportedly will see investors pump around 600 ...
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