About 22.6 million tourists, 80 percent of them from the United States and Canada, are expected to have visited Mexico by the end of 2010. As of September, inbound tourism was up 18.8 percent compared with 2009 (the worst year on record) and 6 percent better than 2008. Arrivals from Canada are up almost 22 percent over 2009 and 32 percent over 2008, with 1 million air arrivals this year. And, despite the much-publicized bankruptcy of Mexicana Airlines earlier this year, air arrivals from the U.S. were up 15 percent compared with 2009. The growth in visitors from other countries is even greater. Italy is up 22 percent; Germany, 18 percent and Brazil, 94 percent.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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