Mexico received 78.5% fewer international tourists in April than in the same month of 2019, going from 3.6 million to slightly less than 780,000 travellers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported today.
The main decrease, of 98.1%, was in tourists arriving by air, which last year represented just over 1.6 million people and this year did not exceed 31,100 travelers. The smallest downward variation occurred among border tourists, although this type of travel decreased by 59.8% in April, when it touched close to 700,000 tourists.
This drop in the circulation of people responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease that so far has left more than 124,301 infected and 14,649 dead in the country. Mexico lost 93.7% of its foreign exchange earnings produced by tourism in April compared to the same month of 2019. Source: Vallarta Daily News
