Mexico Designing Strategy of 'Comprehensive Security' to Protect Foreign Visitors eTN
go to original February 3, 2014

Tourism Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu says coordination, training and prevention are the three pillars of public security policy. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg)

The Secretary of Tourism of Mexico, Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, said that the government of Enrique Peña Nieto is designing a strategy of "comprehensive security" to protect foreign tourists.

"The Government of Mexico, as any government that values its tourist destinations, is concerned and engaged in providing comprehensive security for tourists," she said. Therefore Peña Nieto has ordered to create a Tourism Office, whose main goal is the comprehensive security, which seeks to coordinate and streamline all government actions to ensure that tourist destinations have acceptable levels of public safety.

“Destinations popular with international visitors should have a police force that knows what to do if a tourist is victim of a crime," said the Secretary of Tourism. She also emphasized that comprehensive security includes not only the issue of public safety but other aspects as well including services designed to help tourists.

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