News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Baja tourist bid enters crisis mode

Campaign launched to encourage visitors
By Greg Gross
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
January 24, 2008

TIJUANA – With cross-border visits showing marked declines, business and tourism officials in Baja California are going into full-scale damage control in hopes of regaining ground lost over the past year.

“The image of the security problem has hit the state very badly,” said Baja California's tourism secretary, Oscar Escobedo Carignan.

The problem lies in a major falloff of visitors driving to Baja California from the United States. Escobedo said there were 1.5 million fewer visitors in 2007 than in 2006.

Escobedo said the region has suffered a significant blow to its image with reports of organized crime and violence in Baja California, as well as of robberies and assaults on foreign tourists in the last year.

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