Maya Train tickets go on sale in Europe

Tickets for the Maya Train volition spell connected merchantability successful Europe starting Feb. 1, acknowledgment to a collaboration with the German transport institution Flix

Flix, a German mobility and exertion institution that operates chiefly nether the FlixBus and FlixTrain brands, volition administer Maya Train tickets connected its website, app and carnal stores crossed Europe.

The Maya Train, which was completed successful 2024, runs a 1,554-kilometer loop astir the Yucatán Peninsula, connecting the region’s archaeological sites, beaches and cities similar Mérida and Cancún. (Ruta Tren Maya)

Until now, the Maya Train lone sold tickets successful Mexico. With this alliance, it volition unfastened its planetary income successful the European marketplace for the archetypal time.

The Mexican rider bid volition present beryllium integrated into Flix’s catalog, which operates successful much than 40 countries and connects hundreds of destinations, making it casual to see the Maya Train successful planetary itineraries.

Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora said that the tickets’ availability successful Europe volition let overseas travelers to program their trips further successful advance, portion helping advertise the bid crossed the pond. She remarked that the summation of the Maya Train to Flix’s web “strengthens the country’s tourism competitiveness by integrating integer tools that simplify the question acquisition and bring the destinations of the Maya World person to a greater fig of planetary visitors.”

With this collaboration, Mexico seeks to trim logistical barriers by allowing European travelers to plan, publication and wage for their obstruction journeys earlier arriving successful Mexico, conscionable arsenic they would with a autobus oregon bid wrong Europe.

Meanwhile, caput of the Maya Train Óscar David Lozano pointed retired that the confederation besides seeks to redistribute the tourer travel towards section communities to fortify assemblage tourism.

According to authoritative information by the Tourism Ministry (Sectur), the Maya Train offers 20 regular commercialized runs and has transported 2.15 cardinal passengers since it began operations successful December 2023. During the caller wintertime vacation period, it recorded a highest of 9,844 passengers successful a azygous day.

The Maya Train, 1 of the signature projects of erstwhile President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), runs for 1,554 kilometers (966 miles) crossed 5 states successful confederate Mexico: Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

 With reports from El Financiero and Lider Mexico