Back from a quick trip to Japan, Tourism Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu announced that Mexico hopes soon to be attracting 100,000 Japanese tourists annually. India and Indonesia also are attractive markets, she added. And while Mexico no longer is among the 10 most visited countries in the world, the hospitality industry is during well, the minister declared. She noted that under the five-month-old Enrique Peña Nieto administration, about 12 percent more tourists arrived compared to the first five months when his predecessor took over six years ago. Earnings, she added, were $6.4 million during the first two months of this year compared to $5.7 million in January and February of 2007.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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