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The celebration of Cinco de Mayo originated in the central Mexican state of Puebla, when the Mexican army unexpectedly defeated the Spanish in the mid 1800’s.  Over the past 2 hundred years, Cinco de Mayo has become less a celebration of military victory, and more just a celebration of Mexican pride and culture.  Now that the history lesson is over, pull out your sombreros and tequila and…

But, this years celebration has been greatly curtailed.

According to TripWolf the expected Mexican travel industry financial hit, due to the swine flu, has a projected total of 2 billion US dollars.  That’s a large impact on the country’s most important industry.

We have had to jump through many hurdles at Fitness Pro Travel due to this outbreak.

Understandably many of our working vacation fitness professionals have been a bit nervous as well.  We’ve been working with many of the currently scheduled pros to assist in changing property locations where possible and giving credits as necessary.  We have also kept up to date information from the CDC posted within the community network to keep all informed.

I’m definitely going to be relieved, along with the tourism industry of Mexico, when this one has run its course.

Thankfully there are many options for working vacation resorts available throughout the Caribbean that our fitness professionals can take advantage of.

The exciting part is that while we’ve added no less that 12 new locations in Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic over the past 6 months, there are more still in the works that are looking for the expertise of fitness professionals to be offered to their resort guests.

If you are a FitPro and would like to take advantage of a “working” vacation to an all-inclusive resort I encourage you to create an account at that website and join the mailing list you see to the right.  You’ll have great cost-effective travel opportunities for yourself, your guest, and at many locations, your kids.

See ya in the sun.

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