Cancun, QR. The Federal Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marquesannounced that in 2021, Mexico occupied the first position in the participation of trips made by Americans abroad, receiving 58.6% of the total.
Of this total, the main route of entry into our country was the Cancun International Airportfollowed by the air terminals of Los Cabos and Mexico City, according to data released by the Ministry of Tourism (Sector), based on the Department of Commerce.
According to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the Mexican government, in 2021 cancun captured 4.5 million American travelers, followed by Los Cabos with 1.6 million, as well as 1 million from the terminal of the Mexico City.
Nationwide, 10.2 million travelers from the American Union were captured during 2021, so of that total, the terminal cancun captured 44.1 percent.
According to Torruco Marqués, arrivals by air of US tourists represented 72.7% of total arrivals, hence the importance of this market for our country.
In addition, he highlighted that only when considering air travel, during the past year US citizens increased their arrivals to Mexico by 100.9%, going from 5 million 16,000 trips in 2020, to 10.2 million in 2021, so only an additional 0.3% is missing to reach the levels observed in 2019.
the owner of Sector He stressed that this confirms the forecast that the reactivation of the tourism industry was going to happen with short-distance trips, as is the case with destinations in Mexico, which are on average four hours by flight from cities in the United States.
In the specific case of cancunthe air terminal closed 2021 with the mobilization of 4,588,597 Americans, which represents 18% above the 3,875,361 Americans that were captured in 2019.
This figure is also 4.5% higher than the volume of Americans captured by the Mexico City International Airport, which closed 2021 with 1 million visitors from the American Union.
connectivity
Cancun tops the list of destinations with the best air connectivity for 2022, with a total of 56,951 flights and 10,505,000 seats, as well as an estimated spill of 11,712 million dollars, according to data from the federal Ministry of Tourism.
Hoteliers ask to reinforce promotional campaigns so as not to lose market share as the flow of tourists to competing destinations in the Mexican Caribbean normalizes.
Jesús Almaguer Salazar, leader of the Cancun hoteliers, Puerto Morelos and Isla Mujeresinsists that the international tourism that the Mexican Caribbean currently attracts “is borrowed”, because once the restrictions in other destinations are completely eliminated, the competition will be fierce and the health flexibility that Mexico has shown will not be enough to retain the Current passenger volumes.
“We are living with tourism provided by other destinations, which have not opened due to pandemic situations that are being more restrictive in other countries,” he asserted.
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