Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

International tourism in Mexico fell 78.5% in April; tourism will not recover until 2023

Mexico received 78.5% fewer international tourists in April than in the same month of 2019, going from 3.6 million to slightly less than 780,000 travelers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported today.

The main decrease, of 98.1%, was in tourists arriving by air, which last year represented just over 1.6 million people and this year did not exceed 31,100 travelers.

The smallest downward variation occurred among border tourists, although this type of travel decreased by 59.8% in April, when . . .

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