President Enrique Peña Nieto announced that 100 billion pesos (about $7-8 billion) will be invested in infrastructure programs aimed at benefiting the tourism industry. New port facilities, better highways and revived passenger railways are among the programs planned. Peña Nieto spoke at the National Tourism Forum in Cancun, noting that tourism creates jobs and regional development. Cancun itself is proof of this. Prior to the 1970s, Cancun was an empty sand bar on the edge of a remote and undeveloped federal territory. It now is the biggest resort destination in the entire Caribbean.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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