Cancun has set its sights on wooing UK scheduled services and moving away from its image of a cheap Caribbean package destination.

The Mexican coastal resort has been extensively rebuilt since being struck by the devastating Hurricane Wilma in October 2005, with hoteliers plunging in more than $2 billion to upgrade facilities.

HONG KONG, Oct. 22 Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world’s most prestigious hotels and resorts, currently operating 20 luxury hotels with a further 18 under development in Riviera Maya, Mexico (2007), Beijing, Boston and Hainan Island, China (2008), Barcelona, Chicago, Costa Rica, Dallas, Las Vegas, Macau, Marrakech, and Turks and Caicos (2009), Grand Cayman, Guangzhou, Milan, Paris, Taipei and St. Kitts. (2010). In total, Mandarin Oriental now operates, or has under development almost 10,000 rooms in 22 countries with 16 hotels in Asia, 14 in The Americas and eight in Europe and North Africa.