Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Tourism growth slowing down in Puerto Vallarta

Although the influx of tourists to Puerto Vallarta, the main beach destination in Jalisco, continues to increase, growth in 2018 is slowing down, according to the head of the Ministry of Tourism (Secturjal), Enrique Ramos Flores.

He explained that in 2017 the state recorded a growth in tourist influx close to 9% compared to 2016, while at the end of 2018 a growth of 4.5 percent is projected.

"This is a phenomenon that is being observed in all beach destinations; One of the reasons is that in 2017 the Caribbean beaches, which are our main competition for the US . . .

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