The first 11 months of the year saw the largest number of foreign tourists at the airports in Cancun, Mexico City, and Los Cabos, registering 14 million 620 thousand tourists, the federal Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) announced in a press release issued on December 25.
For its part, the government of Quintana Roo highlighted that during the penultimate weekend of the year, the state’s four international airports (Cancun, Cozumel, Tulum, and Chetumal) reported more than 1,460 air operations. And on December 25 alone, Christmas Day, 620 air operations were recorded.
“With these numbers, a great end to the year in terms of tourism is expected. The week of December 14 to 20 saw an influx of 472,286 tourists, with an average hotel occupancy of 78.4 percent. Airport operations totaled 4,349 arrivals and departures between the four airports in the state,” detailed the Quintana Roo government.
On December 21, Quintana Roo broke a record with 762 scheduled operations in all its air terminals to national and international destinations, highlighting the frequencies to the east coast of the United States, mainly, Canada and Europe.
The information shared by Sectur details that from January to November 2024, the arrival of 19 million 917 thousand foreign tourists by air to Mexico was recorded according to their nationality, an increase of 2.2 percent, compared to the same period in 2023, and 16.6 percent more than the arrivals in 2019.
According to information from the Migration Policy Unit-Registration and Identity of Persons of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), the main countries in arrivals of foreign tourists by air to Mexico, in January-November 2024, were the United States, Canada, and Colombia, with 15 million 497 thousand tourists together, 4.2 percent more than in 2023; also exceeding the number of tourists in 2019 by 29.4 percent.
During that period, the arrival of Americans by air reached 12 million 658 thousand tourists, 4.7 percent higher than the figure for 2023 and 34.2 percent more than the arrivals in 2019. The arrival of Canadian tourists during January-November 2024 was two million 276 thousand tourists, and Colombians by air were 562 thousand 875 tourists.
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