This 2022 Puerto Vallarta is on track to have a historic closure as a tourist destination since throughout the year there has been a path of recovery without interruption and will undoubtedly exceed figures from pre-pandemic years.
The general director of the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Promotion Trust, Luis Antonio Villaseñor Nolasco, declared that growth has been measured through different tourism services, including air arrivals and hotel occupancy.
Villaseñor Nolasco stressed that in the last long weekend, during Mexico’s Revolutionary Day holiday period, there were excellent results since Puerto Vallarta was the leader in occupancy of beach destinations with an average of 95%.
“This comes as a prelude to what will be autumn-winter, with the arrival of the long weekend in the United States such as Thanksgiving Day, in which everything looks like we will be above 90 percent and this will allow us to reach various objectives that we have set for ourselves”.
He explained that one of these objectives is to exceed 75% average annual occupancy, to leave the 71% that was had in 2019 (pre-pandemic) far behind, and stressed that this is more relevant if one takes into account that the number of hotels rooms have increased in Puerto Vallarta since the record year of 2019.
Another of the objectives is to establish a passenger brand at the International Airport, in 2019 5.2 million were reached and Puerto Vallarta is on track to exceed 6 million in 2022.
At the end of the first ten months of the year, 4,968,700 passengers had already been achieved.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in the United States. Originally it was a day of thanks for the harvest and for the previous year, but it is already a well-established tradition and one of the most anticipated by North Americans and a boom for Mexican beach tourist destinations, where hotels prepare dinners and special events for Americans who choose to spend this holiday in Mexico. Puerto Vallarta doesn’t have a shortage of options for Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving in Mexico.
