Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

U.S. tourism to Mexico falls due to insecurity

The arrival of US tourists to Mexico reported the steepest drop in seven years in the face of travel alerts from the United States (US) and insecurity.

Figures from the Immigration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) indicate that the country received 845,000 US visitors by plane last April, a decrease of 6.8% (61 thousand people) in relation to the similar month of 2017 when then 906,000 visitors from the United States arrived.

It is the first fall in three and a half years since October 2014, as well as the steepest decline in . . .

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