Is Mexico’s "Superpeso" Scaring Away Foreign Tourists? Mexico Daily Post
go to original October 25, 2023

The main Mexican beaches received fewer foreign tourists by air during this summer compared to the same season in 2022.

Between June and September of this year, the airports of Cancún, Cozumel, Huatulco, Los Cabos, La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Zihuatanejo received a combined 8.9 million international tourists, almost one hundred thousand fewer than those registered in the same period of 2022.

The airports of Cancun, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta, which concentrate two-thirds of the arrival of international tourists to the country, extended the decrease in the flow of these passengers until September. In the case of Mazatlán and La Paz, there were double-digit declines during the four months indicated.

The reasons behind the decline in international travelers to national beaches by air are several, including the strengthening of the peso against the dollar, which has made Mexico more expensive as a destination; as well as the lack of promotion and news about violence in the country, considered Francisco Madrid, director of the Anáhuac Tourism Research and Competitiveness Center (Cicotur).

Likewise, the specialist warned that the reopening of destinations that compete with Mexico was the main cause behind this phenomenon.

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