Ixtapa is one of the major beach tourist destinations in Mexico's Pacific Coast, together with Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta (where we held ACCOTA 2006). In the following link you'll find a brief overview of Ixtapa and its sister city, picturesque old-town Zihuatanejo (yes, that's the Zihuatanejo where Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman ended up in the movie The Shawshank Redemption back in the 1990's):
http://www.visitmexico.com/work/models/VisitMexico30/Folletos/Ixtapa_Zih...
You can find information about Huatulco here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtapa
Tourism and cultural information here: