Mexico will obtain a profit of 29,710 million pesos (about 1,485 million dollars) for consumption of tourist services during the third and last long weekend (bridge) of 2022reported this Friday the head of the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) of Mexico, Miguel Torruco.
In Mexico, the ‘bridges’ are long weekends, holidays with forced breaks on Mondays in order to promote tourism.
Precisely, the Mexican official explained that the next long weekend from November 18 to 21 will correspond to the Commemoration of the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and coincides with the program of offers and low prices called the Good Endwhich organizes the commercial sector.
Torruco abounded that only the expected profit for lodging is 2,705 million pesos ($135 million) and expects more of 4.28 million tourists travel to different Mexican tourist destinations on those dates.
According to Torruco’s estimate, a hotel occupancy of 65.9% is expected throughout the country on this bridge, slightly higher than the 62.9% that occurred in the same period, which Mexicans call “bridge”, for linking several days, of 2021.
In this same period, the official predicted that at least 1.89 million tourists will stay in a hotel installed in Mexican territory.
This figure would mean a 99.7% recovery from the levels of the same holiday period in 2019, prior to the pandemic, which affected tourism due to the commercial closures that were forced.
This, Torruco said, means that there are only 6,000 tourists left to reach the level of 2019.
The Mexican official specified that this season 2.14 million national tourists will stay in another form of accommodation, such as visits to family and friends, as well as in second homes.
It also indicated that another 247,000 domestic and foreign tourists They will stay in shared economy accommodation.
The highest percentage of lodging will focus on 12 states, according to data from the Mexican government.
The highest estimate is for Puerto Vallarta with 89.3%followed by Aguascalientes (85.1%), Los Cabos (79.8%), Mexico City (78.6%), Cancún 78.4%, Querétaro 76.7%, Acapulco 69.6%, among others.
Torruco explained that these 12 main Mexican destinations together represent 42.5% of the total number of rooms in the centers monitored in the Statistical Information System of the Tourism Sector of Mexico-DataTur. The Mexican Secretary of Tourism added that only for the Good End sales are expected from the commerce sector for 195,000 million pesos (9,750 million dollars), according to figures from the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur) of Mexico.
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