It’s official. Mexico’s tourism sector has almost fully rebounded from the Covid pandemic. And with a bang to boot!
Mexico received 20.3 percent more international tourists in 2022 than in 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported last week.
Just over 21.3 million international visitors arrived at Mexico’s airports last year, compared to 14.6 million in 2021, while land tourism rose by 19 percent. However, the total number of international tourists entering the interior of the country last year (excluding visits to border areas), 38.33 million, is 14 percent less than in 2019, before the onset of the pandemic
Offsetting this shortfall was an encouraging 42-percent rise in foreign currency income, Inegi said. Despite global economic turbulence, tourists are spending more: $US687.42 dollars per person per visit in 2022, up from $US580.26 in 2021. Even more heartening is Inegi’s calculation that the 2022 figure is 38 percent higher than in 2019.