Favorable Tourism Statistics So Far This Year for Vallarta-Nayarit John Youden - MLSVallarta
go to original May 18, 2016

Puerto Vallarta performed very well for the first quarter of 2016 for hotel occupancy and total airport and cruise ship passengers registered for 2015.

• For the first quarter of 2016 hotel occupancy in Puerto Vallarta was 82.5%, its highest level in a decade, 4.5% more than in the same period of 2015

• Nuevo Vallarta finished the same period with 86.7%.

• In 2015 the Puerto Vallarta International Airport saw its most passengers since 2008 when there were 3,241,000 registered, finishing last year with 3,518,000 passenger registrations.

• TAR, Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Iceland Air opened up five new routes to Puerto Vallarta Airport with 31 weekly frequencies.

• Puerto Vallarta also recorded an improvement in the arrival of cruise passengers in 2015 with 322,000 people visiting the port, 34 percent from a year earlier, and a level it hasn’t seen since 2008.

Statistics provided by the Mexico Tourism Ministry

Photo: Producciones Viva

MLS Vallarta is a real estate service offered by the Producciones Viva S.A. de C.V., which has been providing MLS service to the region since 1988.

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