Mexico Bound to Tackle Tourism Insecurity

Mexico’s main priority must be to fight and tackle insecurity in its main tourism destinations in order to avoid a reduction in the number of visitors, as said by the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur).

The organization’s president Jose Manuel Lopez said that it is of utmost importance that tourist destinations must be kept as “authentic sanctuaries and examples of social peace.”

Mexico’s tourism sector takes pride in offering the very best to visitors, both national and foreign, although he acknowledged the need of a favorable context to achieve its objectives.

President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that he could use funds earmarked for promoting tourism for his ambitious rail project known as the Maya Train.

The project is meant to promote the country’s southeastern area by connecting the Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo as well as Tabasco and Chiapas and potentially bringing three million tourists to the region.

In 2017, Mexico went up to the sixth place among most visited countries in the world in a listing by the World Tourism Organization.

However, Mexico also experienced a wave of violence last year when it saw a record 31,174 murders, according to official data.

This insecurity led some countries, including Germany, the United States and Netherlands, to issue warnings to tourists who were planning to visit Mexico.