Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) – The United States government and many journalists portray a Mexico taken over by drug violence and organized crime, but that doesn’t stop more and more Americans from crossing the border to live and vacation in Mexico.
In the context that the life of every foreigner is in danger as soon as they cross the Sonoran desert, try to explain this expression by Joan Bottarini, finance director of the global hotel firm Hyatt, when he announced the group’s results yesterday:
“One final update to share, we will be celebrating our Investor Day on May 11 of this year at Secrets Moxché and Secrets Impression Moxché, two fantastic all-inclusive luxury properties in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where we plan to expand into many of these major themes (growth). More details will be shared in the coming weeks.”
One of the most important hotel companies in the world, invites its millionaire investors to risk their lives for a few days, near Cancun to talk about how business is back at the end of the pandemic.
Hyatt has no shortage of nice hotels in the United States to host investors.
Recently, an article in The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, alluded to the upcoming “carnival” of spring breakers who regularly saturate the beaches in search of a party, eager to drown themselves in booze along the nearly 11,000 kilometers of Mexico’s coastline.
The article by Hannah Sampson was titled: Is it safe to travel to Mexico? What to know ahead of spring break
“A series of recent headlines before the holiday season proclaimed that the United States Department of State warns against visiting Mexico,” reads the article in one of the United States’ most important news publications.
The US Embassy and Consulates in Mexico have issued several security alerts since January for Ciudad Juárez and several cities in the states of Sinaloa and Quintana Roo. Reuters reported that an Aeroméxico plane was hit by gunfire in early January; The Culiacán airport was closed due to violence after the arrest of the alleged fentanyl trafficker Ovidio Guzmán.
That publication highlights that according to the United States State Department, there are only two relatively safe Mexican states: Campeche and Yucatán.
That should scare many into reconsidering buying a ticket to Mexico. Only two safe states and they aren’t even really known for tourism.
But that same writing brings the public closer to the reasons why travel warnings do not stop the growth of American tourism year after year: perhaps the killings in their own country desensitize Americans to the scourge.
“America, of course, has its own problems with violence; mass shootings averaged more than one a day in 2023 and homicides hit their highest levels in decades in recent years. Other countries, including Canada, Germany, and Australia, routinely warn their citizens about firearm crimes when they travel to the United States.
Are we then facing a new reality of the “old west”?
The data shows that visitors have rained, and the trend – in addition to the sidewalks of Colonia Condesa and Colonia Roma in Mexico City – shows that a ‘downpour’ is coming.
Until November of last year, more than 30 million US citizens traveled to Mexico, an increase of 18 percent over the previous year, highlights the Washington Post.
In addition, Bloomberg Businessweek Mexico published a report in September that shows the constant arrival of professional Americans who come to live in Mexico looking for lower living costs. There are no signs that the trend is expected to change. Americans will continue to move to Mexico in record numbers.
The real problem, as always, is underlying and it is enormous: Americans ignore the constant deterioration in the quality of life in the US, while their anxiety is increasing, and Mexicans turn the other way when it comes to upholding the rule of law.
Travel warnings do not stop the growth of American tourism year after year: perhaps the killings in their own country desensitize Americans to the scourge . . .
