Quintana Roo Governor Seeks to Increase Russian Tourism The News
go to original March 21, 2012

“To accommodate the Russian tourism market’s growing interest in Quintana Roo, we will negotiate the opening of five weekly flights between Moscow and Cancún at the Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exposition (MITT),” said Quintana Roo Governor Roberto Borge Angulo oearly this week.

Borge Angulo said that he will meet with Mexico’s Ambassador to Russia Alfredo Pérez Bravo to discuss more extensive use of Immediate Electronic Authorizations, which substitute traditional visas. At the event, Borge Angulo will pursue his European strategy of establishing the Mexican Caribbean as a world-class destination, and maintaining the region’s leading position in Latin American tourism.

The MITT, he said, is the largest and most important tourism convention in Russia. More than three thousand companies and tourism destinations from 185 countries are participating in the event, which is considered a key industry meeting place, and an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and clients. “The idea is to agree on mechanisms to approve more Immediate Electronic Authorizations, which allow Russians and Ukrainians to visit Mexico for tourism, transit, or business without applying for a consular visa,” he said.

He stressed the importance of approving more Electronic Authorizations to allow a greater number of Russian tourists to come to Mexico, and Quintana Roo’s tourist destinations. The move is a response, he said, to recent concerns expressed over making it easier for tourists from emerging countries to visit Mexico.

Borge Angulo said that Russians spend 30 percent more than U.S. and Canadian tourists; his Russian strategy, combined with the “Mayan Route” program, is looking to improve on last year’s total of 30,000 Russian tourists.

“Russian tourism brings in much more money than other markets, on average, and they stay for around six nights,” he said.

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