Fodor’s, the renowned travel guide, urges tourists to ‘reconsider’ visiting CDMX in 2026

Travel usher steadfast Fodor’s has enactment Mexico City connected its “No List” for 2026 arsenic 1 of 8 destinations that tourists should debar visiting.

Unlike different warnings astir Mexico arsenic a tourer destination, Fodor’s does not mention information concerns successful its recommendation. Rather, Mexico City appears connected its “No List” successful absorption to July’s protests lamenting gentrification successful the long-time comfy neighborhoods of La Condesa and Roma.

Mexico City residents’ quality to crook immoderate lawsuit into an entertaining spectacle is 1 of the reasons for its worldwide popularity. Though it volition get much than its stock of the 5.5 cardinal visitors Mexico is expecting for the World Cup adjacent year, Fodor’s is recommending that tourists debar Mexico City successful 2026. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

In defining gentrification, the protesters tended to springiness arsenic examples rapidly rising rents — a universally recognized occupation — and the beingness of foreigners. The signs that got the astir media sum work “Mexico for Mexicans” and “Gringos Out!”

For that reason, President Claudia Sheinbaum, portion promising to bash thing astir abusive rents, criticized the marches arsenic being much astir xenophobia than gentrification.

Fodor’s, whose concern exemplary depends connected tourism, explained its “No List” arsenic indispensable for promoting liable tourism that doesn’t cater to tourists astatine the disbursal of locals. It does not inquire readers to boycott the destinations listed, including Mexico City, but rather, encourages them to instrumentality a interruption from definite spots that are feeling the pressures of overtourism.

Protesters sometimes constituent to what they see an unacceptable fig of foreigners successful the city, but the overarching ailment is that landlords are displacing communities. Apartment rentals, they say, are being listed successful dollars alternatively than pesos (which is illegal), portion semipermanent residents are allegedly facing eviction to marque mode for overseas tenants with bigger pockets.

The maturation successful popularity of Airbnb has besides been blamed for contributing to the lodging crisis. In 2022, erstwhile Claudia Sheinbaum was politician of Mexico City, she signed a concern with Airbnb to beforehand tourism and distant work, giving today’s protesters a crushed for targeting the president.

The advocacy radical Inside Airbnb estimates that determination are much than 25,000 short-term rentals successful Mexico City, with listings expanding by 35% since the COVID-19 pandemic, during which clip much Americans came to the metropolis for its laxer wellness restrictions and cheaper surviving costs.

Beyond economics, Fodor’s mentions taste complaints arsenic factors successful its inclusion of Mexico City connected this year’s “No List.”

Some residents accidental that the specified beingness of Americans negatively affects their culture. Often cited is the rising magnitude of English heard successful the streets and successful restaurants, which a definite benignant of idiosyncratic finds annoying oregon adjacent threatening. Others person observed that restaurants are toning down the spice successful their dishes to delight overseas palates. 

Mexico City is not the archetypal Mexican destination to look connected Fodor’s overtourism radar. In 2024, Oaxaca City appeared nether the class of Beginning to Suffer.

With reports from Fodor’s