Mexico City /
The Mexico’s diverse cultural offering is one of the most important attractions of the country to attract tourists; However, after the impact of the pandemic of covid-19 in it travel sector Globally, this is no longer the same.
According to data from the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur), the museums and archaeological zones of the country received between January and July of this year 11 million 471 thousand 888 people, 4 percent higher to that recorded in the same period of 2023.
However, this figure is still 30.1 percent below of what was reported in 2019, before the impact of the health emergency.
Experts say this is due to the lack of promotion of the country, Well, before the reopening of borders, Mexico began to compete with the world for the international travelers and even local.
“We have talked about what should be rescued from what was done in the past. We do not intend for the Mexican Tourism Promotion Council (CPTM) to return, but we do intend for there to be organic mechanisms for this work,” said the president of the National Tourism Business Council of Mexico (CNET), Braulio Arsuaga, recently.
Sectur defines the cultural tourism like that one Motivated trip by to know, to understand the set of distinctive elements, spiritual and material, that characterize a society or social group of a specific destination.
He government indicated that this industry segment it’s a transforming element of living conditions of the host communities, based on development policies tourist sustainable and inclusive.
In the report of the agency, it was specified that January to July of this year they visited the archaeological zones a total of 5 million 781 thousanda figure 9.7 percent lower than the same period in 2023.
At the level of detail, the entry of national tourists was reduced 16.2 percentwhile the foreigners increased by 2.1 percent.
As for the Total number of visitors to museums In the country it was indicated that in the referred period there was a annual increase of 23 percent.
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