Sheinbaum’s take on what Mexico needs from the cruise industry: Friday’s mañanera recapped

Cruise vessel tourism and backstage and nationalist concern were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Friday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s July 4 mañanera.

Sheinbaum decries scant onshore spending by cruise vessel passengers 

Asked astir the on-again, off-again task to physique a 4th cruise vessel dock successful Cozumel, Sheinbaum took the accidental to talk much broadly astir cruise vessel tourism successful Mexico.

“Cruise vessel tourism is important for the state … but portion of what we privation is” for passengers to “buy things successful Mexico” portion they are successful the country, she said.

Sheinbaum said that Mexico is seeking a overmuch greater economical payment from the docking of cruise ships astatine the nation’s ports.

The president said that cruise ships, and their passengers, “normally bring practically everything” with them and consequently walk small portion onshore successful Mexico.

Sheinbaum lamented the deficiency of spending by cruise vessel passengers visiting Mexico. (Martín Zetina/Cuartoscuro)

“There is small economical spillover successful our country,” she said.

“They get disconnected for a fewer hours and they get connected [the ship] again and leave, successful immoderate cases,” Sheinbaum said.

Former tourism curate Miguel Torruco said past twelvemonth that the mean cruise vessel tourer expenditure successful Mexico was US $83.90 per person.

Sheinbaum said that authorities would similar cruise vessel passengers to walk much clip successful Mexico and to acquisition much Mexican products, specified arsenic arts and crafts. She said that her tourism and civilization ministers are moving connected a task with the National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts (Fonart) to marque authentic artesanías much accessible to cruise vessel passengers.

Her remarks came conscionable 3 days aft Mexico began imposing a US $5 taxation connected cruise vessel tourists, yet implementing a compromise betwixt the authorities and the cruise vessel companies that had lobbied fiercely against the primitively projected $42 levy.

Sheinbaum: Economic interaction of Cozumel dock task has to beryllium reviewed

Sheinbaum said that she had spoken to Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama astir the connection to physique a 4th cruise vessel dock successful Cozumel, a Caribbean land disconnected the seashore of Playa del Carmen.

She said they agreed that the task needs to beryllium reviewed (once again) to find the “environmental impacts it mightiness have.”

Mexico News Daily reported past period that “advocates for Cozumel’s coral reefs were stunned successful April erstwhile the national Environment Ministry greenlit the task to grow a cruise vessel larboard that would allegedly harm the Villa Blanca Reef.”

Opponents accidental the 4th cruise vessel dock planned for Cozumel would harm a locally important coral reef. (File photo)

On Friday morning, Sheinbaum appeared to bespeak that she was not successful favour of the 4th dock project, astatine slightest successful its presently projected location.

“The entreaty of Cozumel has a batch to bash with the reefs,” she said, adding that conserving them was a substance of “principle.”

“… They’re going to extremity up destroying the tourism entreaty of Cozumel if [the projected dock] goes implicit a reef,” Sheinbaum said.

“So it was agreed to reappraisal it again and besides to talk to the community,” she said.

‘The system is doing well, the peso is strong,’ Sheinbaum says aft gathering with concern leaders 

A newsman asked the president astir her gathering connected Thursday with concern leaders including Carlos Slim, Mexico’s richest person.

The person of Mexico’s influential Business Coordinating Council, Francisco Cervantes, was among the different concern representatives that attended the gathering with Sheinbaum and different officials, including Altagracia Gómez, caput of the government’s Business Advisory Council.

Sheinbaum said that the gathering was “very good” and noted that the concern radical raised their “different concerns,” including ones astir delays successful the issuance of permits for projects.

“And what we projected to them is to invest,” said the president, who said that her authorities would enactment “within the model of the law” to expedite the issuance of permits.

Recibimos en Palacio Nacional a empresarias y empresarios; están optimistas por la situación económica de México y comprometidos con nuestro país. pic.twitter.com/PYm6U3emBS

— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) July 4, 2025

Slim, via his assorted companies, is 1 of the biggest investors and employers successful Mexico. In a study past month, Bloomberg described him arsenic Mexico’s “most important lipid baron” fixed his interests successful the sector, including arsenic a spouse to authorities lipid institution Pemex.

Sheinbaum noted that the concern radical she met with connected Thursday, including the CEOs of breadmaker Bimbo and supermarket concatenation Chedraui, already person investments successful galore sectors of the economy.

“But determination are different areas … wherever it’s important that they make worth chains with tiny and medium-sized businesses,” she said.

“The well-being hubs are coming … truthful what we projected to them is to put successful the country,” Sheinbaum said.

Her gathering with the concern radical came a week aft she signed agreements with 14 governors to found the archetypal 15 Economic Development Hubs for Well-being, a cardinal facet of the government’s flagship Plan México concern policy. The gathering took spot the aforesaid time that 4 Mexican pharmaceutical companies announced large concern projects astatine the president’s greeting property conference.

Sheinbaum acknowledged that the United States’ tariffs connected Mexican goods, including steel, aluminum and vehicles, “have an interaction connected our economy.”

Nevertheless, she declared that “the system is doing well” and “the peso is strong.”

“In macroeconomic terms, we’re doing well,” she added.

In summation to backstage investment, Sheinbaum stressed that nationalist concern is besides “important.”

“We person that,” she said.

“Public concern this year, counting everything, is astir 800 cardinal pesos [US $42.9 billion],” Sheinbaum said, adding that the outlay connected authorities payment programs successful 2025 volition besides beryllium astir 800 cardinal pesos.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])