Most Int’l Tourists Come to Mexico for Sun & Sand

April 19, 2018
Puerto Vallarta

Mexico is a city of more than sun and sand for perfect Mexico vacation destinations along with margaritas and that’s true but there are some more exciting places and sweet spots to discover that you might don’t know and it’s not your fault.

As per an interesting stats, the number of international airline passengers landing at the airports across seven most popular and exotic Mexican destinations is rising up and this doesn’t withstand with government’s efforts to improve the tourism industry across the whole Mexico since, only some areas are most visited as compared to the others that are still undiscovered by the tourists.

Tourism Secretariat (Sectur) data discloses an increased number of arrivals of worldwide tourists in Cancún, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Cozumel and the actual percentage was around 92.1%for all global arrivals by air  in the month of January alone with a promotion at peak in the same month for the past three years

In January 2017, international passenger arrivals at the same destinations represented 91% of all air arrivals, while a year earlier they made up 88.9% of the total.

While in an interview session with Mexican Hotel and Motel Association (AMHM) president Rafael García while conversing with a local newspaper Milenio, he blamed the federal government behind all this and opinioned that federal government still fails to actively and sufficiently promote adventure, tourism, religious and medical voyage to the more least visited parts of the country despite of being so much progressive. This discriminatory approach is affecting the tourism opportunities in those affected parts of the region.

Though there a lot of cities in northern Mexico like, the ever lovely Tijuana and Chihuahua that contains great potential to attract foreign medical tourism, but the partial tourism campaigns released from government officials have badly failed to draw attention towards these sectors. While other Mexican states are equipped with serious gastronomic and cultural offerings that could attract and entrain the foreign tourists has now been totally overlooked. Added García.

By increasing direct international flights to regional destinations such as Guanajuato, Morelos, Puebla and Chiapas can be a better way to further expand the exposure of international tourism in these states alongside, inflating direct promotion of the country’s domestic attractions & destination points, as suggested by the AMHM president.

“We have to go after them [potential tourists] in the United States, Canada and Central America,” He further added.

The Mexican Federation of Tourism Associations (Fematur) accepted the fact that the government’s promotional efforts are somewhat biasedly directed towards the country’s main tourism destinations, i.e, beach resorts and urged that the authorities need to take a 360 degree turn by  putting greater emphasis on other regions as well.

Also as per Gracia, there is a think lack of international airlines that can fly to country’s regional destinations due to the fact that connecting such flights from the country’s main airports counts expensive.

Though the distribution of international tourists across Mexico vacation spots is not as even as it should be to promote; international tourism still continues to expand and remains as one of the most significant industries for the country.

Federal Tourism Secretary Enrique de la Madrid declared that an influx of 39.3 million foreign visitors came to Mexico last year in February with an increase of 4.2 million or 12% as compared to 2016 entrances.

As per de la Madrid, last year, the international tourists spent over $21.3 billion which will make the prospect ratio to reach up to 50 million by the end of year 2021.


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