Tourism travel around the world is expected to grow perhaps 3.5 percent, according to the UN’s World Tourism Organization. This is slightly lower than had been forecast. In Mexico there will be no growth at all. Falling numbers are blamed not only to reports of slaughter related to the drug wars, but also to the economic slowdown in the United States, which supplies nearly eight out of 10 tourists coming to Mexico. Then, too, the grounding of Mexicana Airlines has hurt. Mexicana stopped flying more than a year ago, due to financial troubles. There is still a remote chance that someday it may take off again.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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