Analyzing Tourism in a Turbulent Economy

Mexican Tourism Secretary, Rodolfo Elizondo Torres, invited the participants of a meeting of the Tourism Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), held in Riva del Garda, Italy last October, to meet again in Mexico in January 2009 to analyze new business models to boost the tourism sector amid the current world economic situation.

Elizondo Torres explained that a meeting on Culture and Tourism that will take place in Mexico City and the state of Michoacán on the 22nd and the 23rd of January will be extended an additional day exclusively to analyze the consequences of the world economic situation and to establish, if it is necessary, new business models within the tourism sector.

The Mexican minister of Tourism emphasizes that the Mexico meeting will not be limited to high ranking officials of the OECD only, but will also include specialists in various economics sectors that directly influence tourist activity. The OECD is an international organization of thirty countries including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United States, United Kingdom, etc.,that provides a setting in which governments can seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The OECD is headquartered in Paris.