The public transport fares of taxis do not change in the period decembrinas or during the winter, so the Confederación de Trabajadores de Mexico (CTM) will not tolerate abuse during this time of year, in case some providers   services intend to turn a profit on the fees on the pretext of getting a special tip or bonus to the user.

In this regard, the leader of the Federation of Jalisco, Rafael Zambrano Yerena clarified that if a user of taxis is an alleged abuse victim, is asked to note the vehicle number, time and date of service and report it to the CTM to apply appropriate sanctions.

"No way we are going to tolerate abuse, no winter rates as there are summer or any other time of year, rates are permanent until they are renewed what has not happened recently."

He said taxi drivers are not affecting the image of the city with abuses against residents and tourists, as rates are couples for all users, "that is another factor to consider, there is no tariff for foreigners and rates for national, not justified in any way illegal charges against American users because they are foreign or national against be. "

He said that Puerto Vallarta has to have a very precise control of the image receiving visitors, but not only for them but for the residents, they should know that there is no justification that is to be applied in excessive charges and taxi fares truck or any other service.

"There are many people here who have contact with tourists and we hope you can comment and spread because responsibility Vallarta's image is all."

In recent days some people commented on social networks and in some media that observed an increase in taxi fares, especially on weekends, particularly on nights when there are pilgrimages in the city center, some drivers came commenting that it was "the December rate," which raised eyebrows over a user when he tried to charge between 5 and 10 percent extra for that concept.

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The Director of Tourism, Carlos Gerard, announced that on Tuesday December 11 Free tours will begin in the center and the Cuale River Island, at 9 and 12 hours. The main objective of this activity is to attract more visitors flow to the donwtown.

"We are inviting all hotels, all travel agencies, and various associations to make this extended to its members of entire entourage. All those who have  direct contact with the tourist has to invite them to participate,  these tours led by guides previously authorized federal sector, "said tourism director. He also thanked the two tour guides associations that are federal in Puerto Vallarta for the total support provided free of charge, as a service to provide social, who lead the tours.

The goal  is to make these tours every day, but this is determined from the number of people interested. The tours are scheduled to stop by the Church of Guadalupe and the streets of Mina and Hidalgo, the Malecon, the Plaza Hidalgo, the Navy Museum among other places.

Finally, Carlos Gerard added to plan within two weeks, tours start every Saturday in the Zona Romantica

The Director of Tourism, Carlos Gerard, announced that on Tuesday December 11 Free tours will begin in the center and the Cuale River Island, at 9 and 12 hours. The main objective of this activity is to attract more visitors flow to the donwtown.

"We are inviting all hotels, all travel agencies, and various associations to make this extended to its members of entire entourage. All those who have  direct contact with the tourist has to invite them to participate,  these tours led by guides previously authorized federal sector, "said tourism director. He also thanked the two tour guides associations that are federal in Puerto Vallarta for the total support provided free of charge, as a service to provide social, who lead the tours.

The goal  is to make these tours every day, but this is determined from the number of people interested. The tours are scheduled to stop by the Church of Guadalupe and the streets of Mina and Hidalgo, the Malecon, the Plaza Hidalgo, the Navy Museum among other places.

Finally, Carlos Gerard added to plan within two weeks, tours start every Saturday in the Zona Romantica

A bag of harvested arabica beans, used in specialty coffees, sits at Ponto Alegre’s farm in Cabo Verde, Brazil. Record coffee harvests in Brazil, the biggest grower, are compounding a global glut of arabica used by Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts. (Photo/ Paulo Fridman/Bloomberg)

Record coffee harvests in Brazil, the biggest grower, are compounding a global glut of arabica used by Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.

Brazilian farmers will reap 50.8 million bags in 2013, a record for a so-called low-crop season, according to the median of nine analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The harvest reached 55.9 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags in 2012, an all-time high for a peak year. Output usually drops in alternate years because of growing cycles. Prices may fall 13 percent to $1.311 a pound by June 30, the average of 14 predictions shows.

Futures slumped about 50 percent since May 2011, as the highest prices in 14 years spurred Brazilian farmers to boost supply. Their exports jumped 54 percent to $8.7 billion in 2011. The flood of beans has continued and stockpiles tracked by the ICE Futures U.S. exchange are headed for the biggest annual gain in more than a decade. Rising costs and concern that economies are slowing encouraged roasters and consumers to favor cheaper robusta beans.
A significant coffee crop for Brazil

“There’s a significant crop coming from Brazil if the weather continues to be favorable,” said Claudio Oliveira, the head of trading at Castlestone Management LLC in New York, which manages about $500 million of assets. “Abundant supply is the driving force in the market.”

Futures fell 34 percent to $1.507 this year, the biggest retreat of the 24 commodities tracked by Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index, which gained 0.5 percent. Most agricultural products advanced this year, with records in corn and soybeans as drought parched crops from Australia to Russia to the U.S. The MSCI All- Country World Index of equities rose 11 percent. Treasuries returned 2.6 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.

Brazil had record harvests in two of the past three seasons, almost doubling output in about a decade and now accounting for 38 percent of global supply, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. About 72 percent of the country’s crop was arabica this year and the rest robusta, typically used in espressos.

Minas Gerais, Brazil’s top arabica-growing state, harvested 25.87 bags per hectare this year, up from 18.75 bags in 2004, according to Conab, the government’s crop forecasting agency. That’s adding to a global crop the USDA estimates will expand 7.5 percent to a record 147.9 million bags this season.

Frost during Brazil’s winter in June and July may limit the drop in prices, said Marco Antonio dos Santos, an agronomist with Sao Paulo-based forecaster Somar Meteorologia. The last severe frost to limit output was in 1994, when a low-season harvest plunged 36 percent the following season, according to data from the International Coffee Organization in London.

“A lot of the optimism about Brazil’s crop has pretty much been factored in, and any weather disturbances could take off 3 to 4 million bags,” said James Cordier, the Tampa, Fla.- based founder of Optionsellers.com, a Commodity Trading Advisor.

Economic stimulus by central banks and governments from China to Europe to the U.S. also may revive global growth and boost demand for all commodities, said Kona Haque, an analyst with Macquarie Bank in London. Some markets are already expanding, including in Brazil itself, where consumption jumped 12 percent in the three years to 2011, ICO data show.

Arabica cost almost three times more than robusta by September 2011, from a premium of about 39 percent in 2008. That’s since narrowed to about 74 percent as roasters switched blends to use the cheaper beans. Robusta traded on London’s NYSE Liffe exchange rallied 5.4 percent to $1,907 a metric ton (86.5 cents a pound) this year.

Robusta will rise to 46 percent of global coffee demand this year, from 40 percent in 2010, according to Volcafe. Consumption of the cheaper bean will rise 6 percent to 66.6 million bags this season as arabica advances 1 percent to 78.6 million, the Winterthur, Switzerland-based company estimates.

The demand is encouraging more robusta supply, which Volcafe predicts will exceed demand by 1.4 million bags in 2012- 2013, led by gains from Vietnam and Indonesia. Arabica output will surpass consumption by 6.3 million bags, Volcafe estimates.

Hedge funds and other large speculators had their most bearish bets on arabica since at least 2006 in the week ended Nov. 20, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. They have been wagering on lower prices in all but two weeks since February.

The 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned of the risk of a “major” global recession on Nov. 27, and the International Monetary Fund has cuts 2013 global growth forecasts twice since July, to 3.6 percent. Growth in coffee consumption will slow to 2 percent this year, from 4.5 percent in 2011, according to the USDA.

The 17-nation euro area tumbled back into recession last quarter, and economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect Japan to do the same this quarter. U.S. leaders have yet to resolve the so- called fiscal cliff of automatic taxes rises and spending cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office has warned risks shrinking the world’s biggest economy.

Lower costs for Starbucks While that may be slowing growth in coffee consumption, it’s also lowering prices. Starbucks, the world’s largest coffee-shop owner, will have “significantly lower” costs at the end of its fiscal year in September than at the start, Chief Financial Officer Troy Alstead told analysts on a conference call Nov. 1. The Seattle-based company expects to save $100 million this year from “favorable commodity costs,” he said. Shares of the company advanced 13 percent this year.

J.M. Smucker Co., the maker of the Folgers brand, expects lower costs for commodities including coffee to be “favorable” for earnings, CFO Mark R. Belgya told investors Nov. 16. The Orrville, Ohio-based company will report an 18 percent gain in net income to $541.8 million in its fiscal year ending in April, the mean of eight analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg show. Shares of the company rose 14 percent this year.

More sales and lower commodity prices are helping franchisees to be “more profitable than ever,” Nigel Travis, Chief Executive Officer of Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin’ Brands Group told investors Oct. 25. The fast-food chain, with more than 10,000 stores, sells about 1.5 billion cups of coffee a year and buys only arabica.

The government of Enrique Peña Nieto not bail Mexicana Airlines or any other airline, said the head of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT), Gerardo Ruiz Esparza.

"It would not be fair that was supporting an airline without supporting the other and do not see that possible," said the official in his first press conference.

In this regard, said to be respectful of the decision of the bankruptcy judge's leadership of the firm, Edith Alarcon, although it is considered necessary that time the situation is resolved.

It should be "a decision one way or another, so you can not follow is the issue that way, there must be a determination and that determination will be different routes."

Among the alternatives, he said, is to promote greater competition through another airline to take an important role in the domestic aviation market, but this will depend on the decision of the judge.

However, said that an audit request for the current federal government knows precisely the reasons that Mexicana Airlines is in bankruptcy, and acknowledged that workers have every right to point out the damage caused by this situation.

Ruiz Esparza forward otherwise it will be until next January when submitting the proposed new National Plan 2012-2018 Transport and Infrastructure, where the 105 is expected to include actions to be followed in the administration area.

He noted that specialized in surveillance promote the country's roads, and camcorders this by creating a control center that will be in charge of public security, to have "a safer Mexico."

On the construction of a new airport in the Valley of Mexico, said that because the current air terminal capital can no longer grow, addressing alternatives to the existing infrastructure.

Regarding the construction of the airfield in the Riviera Maya, said that "before having new airports that compete with existing must consolidate the current system, they must be given an opportunity to consolidate."

On the subject of ports, said he will focus on expanding Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Veracruz, Altamira and Guaymas, the latter being the substitute Punta Colonet project, proposed and canceled by the previous federal administration.

On passenger rail projects that specified, shall be constructed under the concept of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), among other schemes, said the Transpeninsular more feasible is because it is a more advanced project.

Referring to Chalco would run to La Paz, in the state of Mexico, said that this project must have been built during the past six years, but will resume in the present administration, but will consider whether it is through a light rail, a Bus or a suburban, this depends on the capacity.

About the Project Mexico-Queretaro, Ruiz Esparza said he will also seek to carry out options, among which he mentioned using the existing infrastructure of the Suburban, and a new parallel track, and agree to a right of way by the load

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost Latin American architect of the last century,

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A global survey shows feeling wealthy isn’t cheap.

More than one study has tried to determine the financial price of happiness. Some look at wealth. Others look at income.

One well-publicized study last year put the optimal income for happiness at around $75,000. Rising income, it turns out, produces greater happiness until you get to around $75,000. After that, there are diminishing returns, with more income leading to little or no gain in real happiness. This is a fraught question, of course.

“Happiness” itself is not easily defined, and money, as the winners of this week’s Powerball jackpot will tell you, doesn’t always guarantee it. And the financial requirements for happiness usually depend on geography, peer groups and other external factors.

The latest to weigh in on the issue is Skandia International’s Wealth Sentiment Monitor. It found that the global average “happiness income” is around $161,000 for 13 countries surveyed. The United States wasn’t specifically measured.

What is the perfect income?
But there was a wide range of answers depending on the country. Dubai residents need the most to feel wealthy. They said they needed $276,150 to be happy. Singapore came in second place, with $227,553, followed by Hong Kong, with $197,702.

The region with the most modest needs for happiness is Europe. Germans only need $85,781 to be happy, placing them lowest on the list. The French need $114,000, while the British need $133,000.

The survey doesn’t ask about total wealth needed to feel happy. But it does ask about the amount of wealth needed to feel “wealthy.” Globally, the average amount needed to feel wealthy was $1.8 million.

Singaporeans took the lead on the “wealth” needs, with $2.91 million needed to feel wealthy. Dubai ranked second with $2.5 million, followed by Hong Kong with $2.46 million. (Read more: Where to Live If You Want to Be a Millionaire.)

Surveys show that among Americans, most say they need $1 million or more to feel wealthy.

All of this shows that wealth and financial happiness is not an absolute number, but is relative to your peers and surroundings. Living in Dubai, with all those oil barons and oligarchs, the needs are higher. In Germany, where wealth is more evenly distributed, the needs are not as high.

How much wealth or income would you need to feel happy?

Whales choose December to reach waters of Banderas Bay and to mate. The beaches of Puerto Vallarta is the ideal place to enjoy the amazing spectacle of these amazing animals through different companies engaged in this activity for years has served as a major attraction for domestic and international travelers.

The type of whale that visit our country is the humpback whale, considered the fifth largest species of all whales belonging to one of the most important towns of the American Pacific.

For whale watching in Puerto Vallarta are companies and professionals dedicated to the conservation of this species, which spawn interesting activities such as safaris, boat rides or be part of the whale adoption program.

Tour operators are well qualified and have expert biologists and guides that will make it one of the best experiences of your life. The journey begins early as they are whales which will take over the day's itinerary, within 4 hours of the tour pordrás know how to operate these beautiful cetaseos, considered the friendliest in the world.

This stunning spectacle is repeated every year when the beautiful and impressive whales almost three meters begin their journey across the Pacific to reach the warm waters of Puerto Vallarta where kids and adults can enjoy without nungun danger in this beautiful adventure that offers port

After a series of promotional and training, the RCI agents are ready to generate reservations towards this beach destination on the Mexican Pacific. With one familiarization tour of "ambassadors" (reservations agents) and 1 press trip to Puerto Vallarta began the arduous training and promoting this destination by RCI to conclude with a visit Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust's offices Reservations in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Pueblo, Colorado, where the scope was more than 200 agents.

From  November 04 to 9 were found in Puerto Vallarta 13 RCI ambassadors, who are in direct contact with members of the membership at the time of booking your holiday. Also, through RCI, from 14 to 18 November, a group of five journalists in North America specializing in trips to experience lived Puerto Vallarta and its wide range of activities and gastronomy has to offer its visitors, allowing the This name appears on the Mexican Pacific destination not only in magazines but on blogs and social media networks, among which are Culture + Travel, Ultra Travel, www.gayot.com, www.thedailymeat.com and Yahoo!.

To conclude these actions will surely be transformed into increased bookings for the winter season, the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust attended the RCI Central Reservations agents training and presenting to Puerto Vallarta as a beach destination with a host of added values ??for visitors. Working with 2 dates, 28 and 30 November, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Pueblo, Colorado respectively; visit achieved more than 200 agents who showed a particular interest in learning more about this destination and thus increase the flow of visitors to this city.

With a series of actions Puerto Vallarta prepares to close the year, after the local hotel industry expectations are to improve occupancy levels with the arrival of domestic and international tourism, especially from various cities in the United States and Canada . It should be noted that to date, the hotels and motels in Puerto Vallarta still have plenty of room nights available, so it is considered that as they are approaching is dates when reservations are closing, leaving virtually occupations of about 90 percent.

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