Mexico received 7.7% more international tourists last July than in the same month of 2022although economic income from this concept fell more than 2%, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported this Monday.
3.96 million foreign tourists entered the country in the seventh month of 2023compared to 3.68 million in the same period of the previous year, according to the autonomous body’s report.
The main annual rebound occurred in border tourists, which in July 2023 grew by 27.3% year-on-year to exceed 1.54 million people.
While those who arrived by plane rose 0.2% to 2.02 million.
In contrast, last July, Total spending by international tourists decreased 2.3% year-on-year, reaching 2,491.3 million dollars from a previous figure of 2,550.8 million dollars.
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While the average expenditure of each tourist decreased by 9.3% to $628.12 in July compared to $692.33 in the seventh month of 2022.
The data reflect a stabilization of the upward trend in tourism in Mexico, which had 38.3 million international tourists during 2022, 20.3% more than in 2021.
The foreign exchange income from international visitors last year was 26,346.9 million dollars, more than 42% than a year before.
The economy related to tourism in Mexico, which Inegi calls tourism gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 14.4% in 2022.
Mexico was the third most visited country in the world in 2020, a temporary phenomenon that is attributed to flexible health measures in the country’s tourist areas in the midst of Covid-19.
Before the pandemic, Mexico consolidated itself in 2019 as one of the 10 most visited countries in the world, with more than 45 million international tourists who left 24,563 million dollars, a growth of 9% annually.
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