Cozumel to receive over 80,000 cruise ship passengers this week

Cozumel, Quintana Roo, is expecting tens of thousands of cruise vessel passengers during the archetypal week of outpouring break, according to a connection from the authorities government. 

The Quintana Roo Comprehensive Port Authority (Apiqroo) reported that 21 cruise ships carrying immoderate 80,459 tourists would beryllium arriving astatine the land this week done Sunday, April 20.

High play successful Cozumel: cruise ships and turquoise waters. (Especial/Cuartoscuro)

Officials expected astir 14,000 tourists connected Wednesday and implicit 18,000 connected Thursday, which is expected to beryllium the busiest time of the season. Estimates suggest that implicit 16,000 travelers volition get connected Friday, followed by astir 6,000 a time connected Saturday and Sunday. 

While last figures person not been released, authorities estimated that a full of 19,765 cruise passengers were going to halt successful Cozumel connected Monday and Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Governor of Quintana Roo Mara Lezama revealed connected her authoritative X account that from April 5 to 11, the authorities welcomed much than 450,000 tourists, 36 cruise ships and implicit 4,000 aerial operations, resulting successful a edifice occupancy complaint of 74.5%.

Cozumel Mayor José Luis Chacón Méndez, said these statistic bespeak a inclination that volition apt pb the land to extremity the twelvemonth with astatine slightest 5 cardinal visitors, marking a grounds fig for the sunny destination.

“Last year, Cozumel welcomed 4,623,000 tourists; the extremity is to scope 5 million,” Chacón said successful a property conference, adding that cruising companies person expressed their assurance successful Cozumel, arsenic a starring destination “with a immense scope of earthy beauty.”

Cozumel is the largest land successful the Mexican Caribbean. It is fashionable for its pristine turquoise waters and achromatic soil beaches. In the Maya language, Cozumel, oregon Kuzamil, means “island of the swallows.” 

Quintana Roo’s strategy to summation tourism

Gov. Lezama has said that beyond numbers and records, Quintana Roo’s authorities wants to leverage its tourism enactment to amended health, education, housing, and moving conditions for tourism manufacture workers.

Some of her caller actions to boost tourism see a moving travel to Miami, wherever Lezama met with executives from the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) and CEOs of large shipping companies. She besides participated successful Seatrade Cruise Global, a starring commercialized just for the cruise manufacture worldwide, intending to proceed to presumption Cozumel and Mahahual arsenic apical cruise tourism destinations successful Latin America.

Cruise ships bring plentifulness of beingness to Mahahual’s tranquil shores. (Elizabeth Ruíz/Cuartoscuro)

According to her administration, these companies confirmed that they spot Quintana Roo arsenic a strategical determination for maturation and investment, citing its expanding infrastructure and reliability, and expressing beardown involvement successful showcasing the region’s imaginable and attractions to a planetary audience.

Mexico News Daily