Mexico City Eyes Leisure Market as U.S., Canada Visitors Rise

Mexico City is quickly becoming an international vacation destination. In 2012, the city experienced a 9% increase in international travelers from North America. This raised the number of total visitors to 12.5 million, with 3.1 million of these coming from outside of Mexico.
Visitors also remained in the city longer, taking advantage of the city’s 604 hotels and their 49,000-plus rooms. The hotel market continues to develop in Mexico City, where a new hotel has opened every month for the last three years.
Why is Mexico City experiencing such a boom in international leisure travel? Maurico Reyna, general director of Mexico City’s Tourism Promotion Institute, credits the “choice of accommodations, attractions, antiquities, and archaeological sites.”
The increase in tourism is part of a larger trend in Mexico City’s development. “Twenty years ago this was an old city,” Reyna said. “We’re growing again. We’ve recovered and have renovated.”
"Our visitor numbers in 2012 grew 9% from North America, helped by an increase in airlift from U.S. hubs," Reyna said during a Travel Weekly webinar last month. "Average spend also increased to $827 per visitor, and we've seen a longer length of stay in recent months."

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