North Idaho Travel, Vacations and Recreation

The state secretary of Tourism, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Hernandez, and the president of the Cancun Hotel Association, Rodrigo de la Pena Segura, said that the industry without chimneys called last year reached one of his best records.

The bouquet left behind the shadow of crisis that accompanied him in 2009 and 2010 to reach 13 million air passengers, according to the annual report of the local International Airport, for a grand total of 15 million visitors to these destinations and the Riviera Maya, similar figures to 2008, they said.

The state official estimated that as of the celebrations for the end of the long count Mayan prophecies or receive calls about three million more tourists in 2012, which would close this year with 18 million walkers.

Trust director of the Riviera Maya, Dario Acampo Fleet, noted that in 2011 the Riviera Maya achieved an average annual occupancy of 72.38 percent.

The ANT, the National Agreement for the Mexico Tourism registered a 45% improvement in the actions for the federal government and major advances are reported in tourism promotion, investment in infrastructure, training of service providers and lending for travel.

This is at least the information recently released Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Mango in a meeting with the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Mexico City.

Guevara stated that, in terms of training, specialized courses have been given more than 54,000 providers in the various branches of tourism services in the country. Have also been given financial support by 85 million pesos to 4880 small and medium tourism enterprises.

Have also been granted credits worth 149 million pesos to finance leisure travel, benefiting more than 43,000 workers and their families. Gloria Guevara pointed out that the goal of ANT is’ to place Mexico in the fifth travel destination worldwide in the next decade and increase the number of foreign visitors of 22.4 recorded in 2010, 50 million in 2018. “

The promotion has been done in Mexico as a tourist destination, has boosted the number of foreign visitors, and the sector generated revenues equivalent to 9 percent of GDP.

The Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara, said the campaign has allowed changing the image some have of Mexico abroad, as an unsafe country, proof of this, he said, is that today is the main destination of Brazilian Russian and Americans.

“Ninety-nine percent of American tourists who visited our country the first quarter of this year, Mexico would recommend to friends and family, 99 percent, this speaks of the level of satisfaction when they visit our country.”

By taking stock of his tour to Russia, Brazil and the United States, said that with this diversification strategy, expect Mexico to become world’s fifth destination in the medium term.

“And for that we have defined very specific goals that we want next year more than 28million tourists by 2018 50 million tourists to be within the first 5, which means first 5, which travels 161 million nationals we go to 300 million and almost 12 billion dollars in spill we go to 40 “.

He noted that to achieve this goal, the country offers visitors besides the sun and beach sites, 37 sites declared World Heritage Site, gastronomy, 41 magical towns, plus 40 thousand archaeological sites and biodiversity.