Tourism Minister Gloria Guevara met formally last week with the Senate Committee of Tourism. In response to her reply that more soon will be done to promote travel to Mexico, senators complained that these promises have been made for months. One asked whether the task of the newly appointed minister is to see to it that her ministry will be de facto non-functioning. Last year, her boss, President Felipe Calderon, proposed that the Tourism Ministry be abolished to save money for the cash-strapped government. While violence associated with enforcement of narcotics laws is said to have discouraged potential vacationers, the minister said earlier this month that this is a problem of perception.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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