International visitation is up over 13% this year

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Almost 80 cardinal planetary visitors came to Mexico successful the archetypal 10 months of 2025, representing a treble digit summation compared to the aforesaid play of past year.

“Mexico is successful fashion,” declared Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez earlier she presented the latest information connected planetary arrivals astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday greeting property conference.

Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez shares a descent showing tourism information astatine a property conference

Rodríguez reported that Mexico welcomed 79.3 cardinal planetary visitors betwixt January and October, an summation of 13.6% compared to the aforesaid play of 2024.

International visitors refers to tourists who walk astatine slightest 1 nighttime successful Mexico arsenic good arsenic time trippers from neighboring countries and cruise vessel passengers.

Rodríguez said that 38.4 cardinal planetary tourists came to Mexico betwixt January and October, an yearly summation of 5.8%, portion 8.9 cardinal cruise vessel passengers visited the country, up 11.8% compared to the archetypal 10 months of past year.

Mexico was the world’s sixth astir visited state successful 2024, down France, Spain, the United States, Turkey and Italy.

Rodríguez besides reported that planetary visitors contributed US $28.2 cardinal to the Mexican system betwixt January and October, 6.5% much than successful the aforesaid play of 2024.

She said that the “strength of the tourism indicators” bespeak not conscionable the maturation of Mexico’s tourism industry, but besides “international assurance successful Mexico, its stableness and the imaginativeness promoted by the authorities of Mexico.”

“… Every [percentage] constituent that we beforehand successful the accomplishment of visitors … [and] successful [the introduction of] overseas currency is simply a wide motion that the state is connected the close path,” Rodríguez said.

A record-breaking October

Rodríguez said that caller records were acceptable successful October for the fig of planetary visitors and the magnitude of wealth they spent successful Mexico.

She said that 8.3 cardinal planetary visitors came to Mexico successful October, an yearly summation of 10.7%.

Rodríguez described the summation successful planetary visitors’ spending successful Mexico arsenic “incredible,” noting that their expenditure of $2.44 cardinal represented a 9.3% summation compared to October 2024 and a 50.3% spike compared to the aforesaid period successful 2019, earlier the COVID pandemic ravaged the Mexican system — and its tourism manufacture — successful 2020.

Travelers with look masks astatine the the Mexico City International Airport.

The tourism curate besides reported that 3.74 cardinal planetary tourists spent clip successful Mexico successful October, a 0.1% summation compared to the aforesaid period of past year.

Air arrivals

Rodríguez reported that 47.98 cardinal radical came into Mexico connected planetary flights successful the archetypal 10 months of the year, an summation of 1.4% compared to the aforesaid play of past year. The fig includes overseas and Mexican passengers.

The tourism curate presented information that showed that the fig of Italians entering the state by aerial betwixt January and October roseate 14.8%, the highest summation of immoderate nationality.

According to the information she displayed, the fig of Argentinians who came into the state connected planetary flights accrued 14.3% annually successful the archetypal 10 months of the year, portion arrivals were besides up from South Korea (+11.6%), Canada (+11.4%), China (+10.6%) and the United States (+0.6%). The U.S. is the largest root state of tourists to Mexico.

Rodríguez besides reported that rider numbers connected home flights successful Mexico accrued 3.2% annually betwixt January and October to scope 52.43 million.

Mexico’s apical 10 airports

Rodríguez reported that 157.2 cardinal Mexican and overseas passengers utilized Mexico’s airports successful the archetypal 10 months of the year, a 2.5% summation compared to the aforesaid play of 2024.

Mexico’s busiest airports successful presumption of rider numbers betwixt January and October were: