Tourism to Mexico’s ancient ruins and museums surpasses pre-pandemic levels

The fig of visitors to Mexico’s archaeological sites and museums has risen supra pre-pandemic levels, Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora reported Sunday. 

Attendance astatine Mexico’s archaeological sites and museums roseate to 14.6 cardinal betwixt January and August 2025, reflecting a greater involvement successful oregon consciousness of the country’s taste heritage. 

The emergence successful depository visitors has been adjacent much awesome than astatine archaeological sites, the fig expanding this twelvemonth by a afloat 17.6% implicit 2024, acknowledgment successful ample portion to Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum shown here, the astir fashionable depository among nationalist and overseas tourists alike. (Andrea Murcia/Cuartoscuro)

Mexico’s museums attracted 7.7 cardinal visitors successful this period, marking a 17.6% emergence implicit the aforesaid play successful 2024 and a 3.9% summation compared to 2019, the past twelvemonth earlier the COVID-19 pandemic began. This fig consisted of 89% home and 11% overseas visitors. 

Meanwhile, 6.9 cardinal radical visited Mexico’s archaeological sites betwixt January and August, with 64% nationalist and 36% overseas visitors. This marks a 4% summation compared to the aforesaid play successful 2024. 

The astir visited sites were the Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá successful the Yucatán Peninsula, with 1.5 cardinal visitors; the Teotihuacán pyramids successful México state, with 1.2 million; and the Tulum ruins connected Mexico’s Caribbean coast, with 790,000 visitors. Together, visitors to these sites represented 51% of the nationalist total. 

“The summation successful visits to museums and archaeological sites reflects the involvement of nationalist and planetary tourists successful learning astir and appreciating our taste heritage,” Rodríguez Zamora said successful Sunday’s press release, “which successful crook drives section economical improvement and contributes to the procreation of shared prosperity.”      

According to accusation from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s most-visited museums truthful acold this twelvemonth person been the National Museum of Anthropology, the National Museum of History and the Templo Mayor Museum, each of which are successful Mexico City.

“Mexico’s humanities and taste wealthiness is 1 of our top tourer attractions,” said Rodríguez Zamora. “Each depository and archaeological tract tells a portion of our past and allows america to showcase Mexico’s greatness to the world, frankincense strengthening the accomplishment of much visitors and the improvement of taste tourism successful the country.” 

 With reports from La Jornada Maya