Dear visitors:

Puerto Vallarta is home to more than 300,000 people; a blooming tourism industry with over 18,000 hotel rooms; an abundant and exquisite cuisine; exciting nightclubs, bars and discotheques; and a rich and varied shopping landscape filled with handcrafts, clothing, textiles, souvenirs and sweets, aside from having six universities and a noteworthy student population that hails from all over Mexico.

In terms of art, it has more than 30 galleries and a large bilingual library that houses a magnificent collection of original pictures from the movie The Night of the Iguana, donated by Gabriel Figueroa Jr.

Thanks to its warm people, Puerto Vallarta has been consistently ranked as one of the friendliest cities on earth.

Puerto Vallarta is alive day and night. Puerto Vallarta is both a port and a window; mountain and sea. A beach destination that is both a town and a city. It possesses a picturesque personality within an absolutely cosmopolitan ambience.

We eagerly await your arrival with open arms so that you may enjoy the most Mexican of all the beach destinations that our great country has to offer. Your experience in Puerto Vallarta will convince you to return.

Lic. Gemma Garciarce Monraz
President
Puerto Vallarta Hotel Association

The Asociación de Hoteles y Moteles de Puerto Vallarta y Bahía de Banderas A.C. (Association of Hotels and Motels of Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas), founded in 1965, is a nonprofit organization that was born out of the mutual interest of the region's hotel industry members to have a strong voice and participate in all the forums related to the industry.

Through this organization, we can express our opinions regarding crucial decisions needed to achieve a successful lifespan, adequate growth and the firm establishment of Puerto Vallarta as a destination.

The Association represents Puerto Vallarta's hotel industry, with the major hotels of this destination as its members. Through common goals, it creates reforms and increases tourist traffic in a sustainable manner, providing success and growth to Puerto Vallarta.

Our sincere wish is to unify the hotel sector with projects, objectives and actions that have an impact on our destination and the community.

Lic. Alejandro Torres Magaña
General Manager
Asociación de Hoteles y Moteles De Puerto Vallarta, A.C.
atorres@asociacionhotelesvallarta.com