Mexico went from receiving 2 million foreign tourists in November 2020 to almost 2.9 million last November. However, if the figure is compared with the 3.84 million of the eleventh month of 2019, a substantial drop of 24.5% is still observed.
The main rebound occurred in tourists arriving by air, which in November 2020 represented only about 726,000 people and in the same month of 2021 there were about 1.55 million travelers, 113.8% more.
Border tourists, on the other hand, fell 9.4% year-on-year in November to one million travelers.
The data respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease that so far has caused more than 4.1 million infections and more than 300,000 deaths in Mexico, one of the most affected countries in the world.
In November 2021, total tourist spending soared 148.9% year-on-year from $ 857 million to $ 2,133.3 million.
In addition, if the data from last November is compared with that of the same month of 2019, the current one is higher by more than 230 million dollars.
The average expenditure of each tourist rose year-on-year, going from 218.8 dollars in November 2020 to 426.2 dollars in the eleventh month of this year, 94.8% more.