Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hopes for summer


With the summer vacation season about to be upon us, the Tourism Ministry is forecasting 34 million domestic travelers and 14.5 million vacationers from abroad will be heading for hotels. The private sector’s National Tourism Confederation prefers percentages, saying about three-quarters of all vacationers will be Mexicans with the rest coming from various countries around the world. The gloomy Central Bank, while making no predictions, announced that international travel to Mexico during the first quarter of the year declined by about 20 percent compared to 2010.


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Jimm Budd

Reporting from Mexico City

Member of the Society of American Travel Writers

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