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Mexico Tourism Suffers as Drug Gangs Rain on Spring Break Party
Thomas Black and Andres R.
Martinez
Bloomberg
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Mexican tourism revenue may decline for a second year as violent
clashes between drug gangs and a weak U.S. job market threaten
to spoil its spring break party.
Cancun and Acapulco hotels are seeing a smaller-than-normal
influx of college-age revelers this month after recent reports
of bloodshed, tour operators there said. Acapulco’s tourism
marketing agency predicts the number of spring breakers will
drop 30 percent this year to 17,500, said Piquis Rochin, director
of international promotions for the organization.
“The economic crisis is still hurting us a little bit,
and we’ve been affected by so much news about violence
in Mexico,” Rochin said in a telephone interview from
Acapulco.
Mexico’s push to draw tourists, the third-biggest source
of dollar inflows after oil and remittances, is getting harder
as violence connected to drug trafficking persists. Mexico’s
international tourism fell for the first time in a decade last
year amid a weak economy and a swine-flu scare, bringing in
$11.3 billion compared with $13.3 billion in 2008.
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