School is out and the summer vacation season has begun. It will last until Aug. 19 and during that time, according to the private sector National Tourism Confederation, 1.24 million international travelers will come to Mexico and spend $1.9 billion. Foreigners, however, will account for only about 20 percent of all summer vacationers, the rest, of course, being Mexicans. They will be spending $5.1 billion. Mexicans traveling abroad will spend about half-a-billion dollars. All of this works out to about 1 percent more than 2012 figures.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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