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MEXICO TOURISM INDICATORS UP FOR THE FIRST SEVEN
MONTHS OF 2008
·In the first seven months of
the year, Mexico
received $8.475 million dollars in foreign currency, which signified a 6.3
percent increase compared to the same period in 2007.
·Almost 14 million tourists
entered the country, an increase of 5.2 percent compared to the same period
last year.
·As of July 2008, the country
registered a total of 2.234 million workers in the tourism industry, which
represents a 2.3 percent higher rate than the one registered in the same month
in 2007.
During the first seven months of the year, there was an influx of $8.475
million dollars from the spending of foreign tourists, which signified a 6.3
percent increase compared to the same period in 2007, informed Rodolfo Elizondo
Torres, Secretary of Tourism of Mexico (SECTUR).
According to the most recent data from the Bank of Mexico’s
International Visitor Count, Secretary Elizondo said, in the January-July 2008
period, the country received 13.620 million tourists, a quantity that
represented a 5.2 percent increase compared to the same period in 2007.
Likewise, the head of SECTUR said that the average spending of tourists
who traveled further than the border - those who have the longest stays and
greater spending - was of $788 dollars per trip, which represents an increase
of 3.8 percent from 2007.
Secretary Elizondo emphasized that the airline industry transported 26.5
million passengers between January and July 2008, 6.1 percent more than in
2007.
Lastly, he said that as of July 2008, the Mexican Social Security
Institute has a registry of 2.234 million workers in the tourism industry,
which represents a 2.3 percent higher rate than the one registered in the same
month in 2007.
About
the Mexico
Tourism Board
The Mexico Tourism Board
(MTB) brings together the resources of federal and state governments,
municipalities and private companies to promote Mexico’s tourism attractions
and destinations internationally. Created in 1999, the MTB is Mexico’s
tourism promotion agency, and its participants include
members of both the private and
public sectors. The MTB has offices throughout
North America, Europe, Japan and Latin America. For more information on
destinations and online trip bookings please go towww.visitmexico.com.
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story or general travel and tourism information about Mexico,
please contact the MTB’s U.S. Press Room
directly at
1-800-929-4555, by
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