Poor Showing

Mexico’s earnings from international tourism declined 3.3 percent and the number of visits by nearly 2 percent, this year, according to figure published by the UN’s World Tourism Organization. The rest of Latin America did much better, led by Uruguay (53 percent), Peru (20 percent) and Colombia (14 percent). Mexican officials blamed their country’s poor performance on poor economic conditions in the United States, source for the vast majority of visitors to Mexico.

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Jimm Budd

Reporting From Mexico City

Member of the Society of American Travel Writers