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Tijuana Begins New Program to Boost Tourism

fulano - 7-4-2008 at 11:19 PM

Fernando, are you a part of this?

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local;id=12166
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Tijuana's Tourism and Conventions Bureau launched a new tour today designed to show off positive aspects of the city. The tour comes as tourism in the region has dropped off due to long border waits and security concerns. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has details.

Officials from Tijuana's Tourism and Conventions bureau say the tour will stop at 13 spots around the city including restaurant row, a brewery and the largest casino in Mexico.

The tour will last two hours. Guides speak both English and Spanish.

Tickets cost $10 for an adult and one child. People can catch one of three tour buses especially outfitted for the tour at the city's cultural center.

The President of Tijuana's Toursim Bureau hopes the tour will help both tourists and people who live in Tijuana see a different side of the city.

Tijuana is desperate to bring tourists back. Millions have stayed away due crime, the U.S.' s economic downturn and hours long border waits.

Tijuana's mayor recently came to San Diego to assure people his city is safe for visitors.

dean miller - 7-5-2008 at 06:07 AM

2 hours is a long time to leave an vechicle un attended in TJ!

After the tour is completed you return to your vechicle to discover it has been stolen....

ArvadaGeorge - 7-5-2008 at 09:44 AM

OVER, OVER, AND OVER AGAIN

The thing that Baja doesn’t get is that if you want Tourists. You need to have
Police that protect them, Not Police that rob them.
My Fiends don’t want to take their families to Baja. Why? When the police show up
In the States it’s a good thing, in Baja it’s a Bad thing.

Two sides of the coin

guadalupe - 7-5-2008 at 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by ArvadaGeorgeMy Fiends don’t want to take their families to Baja. Why? When the police show up
In the States it’s a good thing, in Baja it’s a Bad thing.


As a woman with family in Mexico, I agree mostly with your remark about Mexico needs to clean up its act with corrupt police. As a Latina who was raised in Los Angeles however, I can tell you that for many people of color, seeing the police show up in the states is not always a good thing either.

ArvadaGeorge - 7-5-2008 at 11:17 AM

I can only comment on my Baja Camping group, which was a lot smaller last winter and may be nonexistent this winter. If the Family’s felt safe they would go; but they don’t so they won’t. Go

CaboRon - 7-5-2008 at 12:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ArvadaGeorge
OVER, OVER, AND OVER AGAIN

The thing that Baja doesn’t get is that if you want Tourists. You need to have
Police that protect them, Not Police that rob them.
My Fiends don’t want to take their families to Baja. Why? When the police show up
In the States it’s a good thing, in Baja it’s a Bad thing.


Pescador - 7-5-2008 at 12:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dean miller
2 hours is a long time to leave an vechicle un attended in TJ!

After the tour is completed you return to your vechicle to discover it has been stolen....


Actually it is a new idea by the cartel. Take out tourists, collect $10, drag them to the brewery and an eating place while you strip their car. :(

fulano - 7-5-2008 at 12:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ArvadaGeorge
OVER, OVER, AND OVER AGAIN

The thing that Baja doesn’t get is that if you want Tourists. You need to have
Police that protect them, Not Police that rob them.


If you read the local Mexican newspapers, there are some very distrubing events going on. Remember all the fanfare about TJ, Rosarito and Ensenada dismissing hundreds of police who could not pass the security tests?

Well, many of them are being quietly reinstated, with back pay, especially in Ensenada. A lot of them have lawyers and they are using the inefficient Mexican judicial system to get back in. Lots of them are getting back on the force due to "lack of evidence" to justify their dismissal.

"Lack of evidence" has a different meaning in Mexico. Everything has to be an original. If the attorney general submits a copy of a document as evidence, it is inadmissable, therefore there is a "lack of evidence". If the name of a snitch who ratted out a crooked cop has been redacted to protect the snitch, there is a "lack of evidence".

Rosarito has been fairing a little better, because it pressured the bad cops to "resign". And Mayor Ramos of TJ has already resisted one court order to rehire dismised cops.

CaboRon - 7-5-2008 at 04:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by fulano
Quote:
Originally posted by ArvadaGeorge
OVER, OVER, AND OVER AGAIN

The thing that Baja doesn’t get is that if you want Tourists. You need to have
Police that protect them, Not Police that rob them.


If you read the local Mexican newspapers, there are some very distrubing events going on. Remember all the fanfare about TJ, Rosarito and Ensenada dismissing hundreds of police who could not pass the security tests?

Well, many of them are being quietly reinstated, with back pay, especially in Ensenada. A lot of them have lawyers and they are using the inefficient Mexican judicial system to get back in. Lots of them are getting back on the force due to "lack of evidence" to justify their dismissal.

"Lack of evidence" has a different meaning in Mexico. Everything has to be an original. If the attorney general submits a copy of a document as evidence, it is inadmissable, therefore there is a "lack of evidence". If the name of a snitch who ratted out a crooked cop has been redacted to protect the snitch, there is a "lack of evidence".

Rosarito has been fairing a little better, because it pressured the bad cops to "resign". And Mayor Ramos of TJ has already resisted one court order to rehire dismised cops.


Good for Mayor Ramos ....... :saint:

Nothing good to say for the others..... :barf:

The tradition of crooked cops continues..... :fire:

This is not the way to win the battle.....:no:

The news here would read like a "black comedy" script,

Only it's NOT funny....

It is tragic..... or tragically funny .... :no:

CaboRon

jeans - 7-5-2008 at 08:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dean miller
2 hours is a long time to leave an vechicle un attended in TJ!

After the tour is completed you return to your vechicle to discover it has been stolen....


When I met ftd for his tour a few weeks ago I parked in the paid lot on the the north east corner of Revolucion and the street that take you there after crossing the border, about 1 block south of the arch. That secure (yes...it is relative) parking lot has been there for over 30 years and has a lot of traffic. It is right in front of the Soriana. It cost $8 for 4 hours. I declined the "special" parking space right in front for $5 extra.

But I left my laptop at home that weekend ;D

bajabound2005 - 7-5-2008 at 09:32 PM

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Originally posted by ArvadaGeorge
My Fiends don’t want to take their families to Baja. Why? When the police show up In the States it’s a good thing, in Baja it’s a Bad thing.


Between ArvadaGeorge's "fiends" and Fulano's "distrubing events" I'm not sure which way to run!

fulano - 7-5-2008 at 09:45 PM

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Originally posted by bajabound2005
Between ArvadaGeorge's "fiends" and Fulano's "distrubing events" I'm not sure which way to run!


Typo N-zi alert!!!!

bajabound2005 - 7-5-2008 at 09:58 PM

well, you have to admit -- there is huge difference between fiend and friend!

Cardon Man - 7-6-2008 at 07:10 AM

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Originally posted by guadalupe

As a Latina who was raised in Los Angeles however, I can tell you that for many people of color, seeing the police show up in the states is not always a good thing either.


Not only in LA and not only if you're a person of color.

[Edited on 7-6-2008 by Cardon Man]