Foreign tourists still picking Mexico, but with tighter vacation budgets

The fig of planetary tourists traveling to Mexico has accrued this twelvemonth compared to 2024, according to the latest study by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). 

INEGI’s data indicates that Mexico received 7.66 cardinal overseas tourists successful April, compared to the 6.75 cardinal tourists it received successful the aforesaid period past year, a 13.5% increase.

The largest year-on-year summation was successful cross-border tourists, which grew by 10.9% to 1.53 cardinal successful April, compared to 1.38 cardinal successful the aforesaid period of 2024. Meanwhile, those arriving by aerial grew by lone 0.2% year-on-year successful April, but inactive exceeded 1.9 cardinal people.

As for full spending of planetary tourists, wealth spent successful Mexico accrued by 12.5% ​​year-on-year, reaching US $3.042 billion, up from a erstwhile fig of US $2.703 billion. That summation is the effect of the greater fig of planetary tourists entering the country, arsenic the mean spending per tourer really decreased by 0.8% from US $400.17 successful April 2024  to US $396.8 successful April 2025.

These figures bespeak the upward inclination successful tourism successful Mexico. In 2024, the state saw 45.03 cardinal planetary tourists participate the country, up 7.4% compared to 2023, reflecting a sustained summation since the extremity of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Looking astatine the wide fig of planetary tourer arrivals betwixt January and April of this year, the Tourism Ministry (Sectur) revealed that successful those 4 months, aerial arrivals totaled 7.86 cardinal overseas tourists. Based connected information from the Immigration Policy, Registration, and Identity of Persons Unit of the Interior Ministry, this represents an summation of 4.8% successful overseas aerial arrivals compared to the aforesaid four-month play successful 2024.

The countries that sent the astir travelers to Mexico were the United States (4.9 million, though tourism successful the oppposite absorption has been sluggish), Canada (1.4 million) and Argentina (144,551).

“The sustained maturation successful tourer arrivals is simply a bully denotation that tourism successful Mexico is connected the close track,” Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora said. “We volition proceed moving to marque tourism a generator of well-being for each members of the immense tourism worth chain.” 

With reports from El Informador