Sector hopes that in a month Mexico will regain its air qualification

At the end of this six-year mandate, “we will establish ourselves as a tourist power in the economic field”, said Miguel Torruco Marqués, Secretary of Tourism, after announcing that in a month we would recover category 1 of aviation safety.

Taking stock of the sector from 2019 to 2024, he announced that the presidential instruction to “make tourism a tool for social reconciliation” was respected.

During his participation in the III Tourism Summit, he revealed that he will finally leave good numbers that will overcome the pothole in which tourism has fallen in 2020 due to the pandemic, because while tourism in the world fell 73 percent, and the countries competing with Mexico fell 86 percent and Mexico fell 46 percent.

“It suffered,” he said, but a correct policy was applied without closing borders, applying health protocols, being the first country to implement them, vaccines were acquired and the best was to stay out of debt and support those who needed it most. .

Today, Torruco Marqués underlined, “we are moving forward and growing”, at the end of 2022, 28 thousand 016 million dollars were captured in foreign currency income from international visitors, 14 percent more than in 2019 .

In addition, he pointed out that in terms of currencies, 4 thousand 245 million dollars were captured, which is 245 percent more than in 2019, a historic figure. Additionally, $32 billion in public and foreign investment has been received to support tourism from 2019 to 2023.

And we are in 2023, he said, “a historic year, of course in the economic field where the potential of tourism is measured”.

On the airline side, there was a 13 per cent increase in arrivals by air from the group of top 10 source markets of the United States, Canada, Colombia, Great Britain, Spain and Argentina, among others. Also in the air domain, 332 new routes have been increased.

Looking ahead, Miguel Torruco acknowledged that his work is done, as he estimates that by the end of 2023 the tourism sector will capture $31.2 billion in foreign exchange revenue from visitors, 11 percent more than in 2022, with the arrival of 40 million tourists, this represents a growth of 11 percent compared to the previous year, and with a tourist who arrives by plane, he leaves with an average cost of 1.174 dollars, or 17.2 percent.

He assured that when the secretariat is delivered, the tourism GDP will be 8.6 percent, that is to say “recover the loss caused by the pandemic”.

Finally, he assured that no tourist project or work will remain unfinished, especially since the Maya Train will inaugurate some of its stations on September 1 “which is not a whim” but a global development work “we have to wait the closure, it just lacks a spring,” he said.