The foreign direct investment (FDI) tourism broke historical record with 3,447 million dollars in 2022, celebrated this Sunday the secretary of Tourism of the Mexican Government, Miguel Torruco.
The official stressed that this figure exceeds the levels of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when a tourism FDI of 1,091.4 million dollars, as well as its highest peak, in 2017, of 1,645.4 million dollars.
The Mexican official highlighted, based on figures from the Mexican Ministry of Economy, that the FDI from the tourism sector represented 9.8% of the total FDI for the country at the end of last year.
Torruco also indicated that, only in the fourth quarter of 2022, FDI in tourism was 187.1 million dollars.
According to Torruco, the countries that contributed the largest flow of foreign investment in this sector for this period were: the United States, with 157.4 million dollars; Canada, with 39.3 million dollars; France, $12.8 million; Colombia, with 9.6 million dollars, and Germany, with 2.1 million dollars.
By Mexican states, the ones that received the most foreign tourism investment were: Baja California Sur, Nayarit, San Luis Potosí, Mexico City, and Yucatán.
The foregoing reflects the confidence that Mexico offers to international investors and businessmen, who contribute to strengthening the tourist infrastructure of the different destinations in the country.”
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The Mexican Secretary of Tourism also affirmed that tourism is also “a tool for social reconciliation” and a detonator of economic benefits and per capita spending by tourists, for the benefit of Mexicans.
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