Mexico’s Tourism Website Tripped Up by Strange Translations

  • Flagrant mistranslations suddenly appear, trend on Twitter
  • English version of the site was shut down after the incident

Source: Visitmexico.com

The sometimes literal nature of automated translation programs has tripped up plenty of tourists -- or in the case of Mexico, its entire tourism board.

Operators of the Visitmexico.com website were left red-faced on Friday when the English version of the tourism information portal suddenly sprouted a series of comic or literal translations.