2024 was a record-setting year for tourism in Tamaulipas

Tourism successful the northeastern borderline authorities of Tamaulipas has experienced important maturation successful caller years, reaching grounds figures successful 2024, according to Mexico’s Tourism Ministry (Sectur).

Tamaulipas received implicit 14 cardinal tourists and economical gross of implicit 13 cardinal pesos (US $633 million) implicit the people of the year, the authorities tourism ministry reported.

The metropolis of Tampico was the second-most visited destination successful Tamaulipas successful 2024, with much than 1.5 cardinal visitors past year. (Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones/Wikimedia Commons)

Tamaulipas tourism minister, Benjamín Hernández Rodríguez, said that the existent authorities authorities has allocated resources to heighten tourism infrastructure and boost surveillance efforts to guarantee the information of visitors.

Tourism maturation successful Tamaulipas

Official figures revealed that the astir fashionable destination successful the authorities was Ciudad Madero’s Miramar Beach, with implicit 3.1 cardinal visitors generating implicit 2.1 cardinal pesos (US $102 million) successful revenue. The fig represents an summation of 355% compared to 2023.

The metropolis of Tampico ranked arsenic the second-most-visited destination successful Tamaulipas, with implicit 1.5 cardinal visitors — a emergence of 160% compared to 2023. Next was the Magical Town of Tula, with implicit 639,000 visitors — up 83% connected the erstwhile twelvemonth — followed by Altamira with 346,000 visitors, which saw an 82% increase. Matamoros recorded 296,000 tourists passim the year.

While nary figures were released connected the fig of visitors, the ministry besides reported that the borderline metropolis of Nuevo Laredo recorded an summation of 61% compared to 2023.

Despite the accrued fig of tourists successful Tamaulipas, the United States and Canada person pass visitors against unncessary question successful the state.

The U.S. has included Tamaulipas successful its Do Not Travel list, due to the fact that of precocious levels of transgression and kidnapping successful the state. Canada recommends avoiding non-essential question to the state, but for the confederate metropolis of Tampico.

With reports from El Economista