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Elizondo took his calculations from estimates released by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of Homeland Security, which projected that 318,000 American travelers would cancel or fail to book trips to Mexico as a result of the passport requirement.

Given that some 5.3 million of the 21.3 million international tourists visiting Mexico in 2006 were Americans traveling by air, spending an average of US$798 per stay, the resulting US$254 million in lost revenue will amount to only 2.2 percent of the US$11.6 billion in international tourism revenues his country expected to post for the year, he explained.

Mexico’s Tourism Secretary added that the number of Americans who traveled to Mexico by air and did not have passports dropped to merely six percent by January 2007, in part due to an informational campaign launched in October 2006 by the Mexico Tourism Board with the support of tour operators, travel agents and other travel industry representatives. continue reading…

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If you are anything like me, you’ve read dozens of books and listened to countless programs on public speaking.  One common thread that I tend to find in all the info out there on public speaking, is that “research shows that PUBLIC SPEAKING IS THE #1 FEAR OF MOST PEOPLE.”

Now let me ask you a question: if I (or heck, anyone) held a gun to your head and and said “You’ll need to give a public speech in three months on a topic of your passion or a topic that you know really well.”  What would you say?  My halucination is that you’d NOT say “Go ahead, pull the trigger,” but rather accept the challenge and do that speech.

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