Mexico has benefitted from friction between United States and Canada since beginning of second Trump Presidency
Mexico received more than 6.12 million foreign tourists who arrived in the country by air in the first quarter of 2025, registering a growth of 3.5 pc compared to the same period in 2024.
In a press statement, the Secretary of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, Josefina Rodríguez Zamora, announced that during the first quarter of this year, over 3.86 million tourists residing in the United States arrived by air, which is 5.1 pc higher than the 2024 figure and it represents a 34.9 pc increase over the 2.59 million arrivals in 2019.
Josefina Rodríguez Zamora
She highlighted that air arrivals of tourists residing in Canada, from January to March this year, totalled 1.22 million tourists, 13 pc higher than in 2024. It also represents a 15.3 pc increase over the 1.05 million Canadian arrivals by air in 2019.
She emphasised that the figures reveal the importance of the economic relationship between Mexico, the United States and Canada, as well as the need to strengthen, maintain, and strengthen tourism ties in the North American region.
The Secretary of Tourism said that, based on data from the Ministry of the Interior’s Migration Policy, Registration, and Identity Unit, this represents a 3.5 pc increase compared to 2024 and 16.6 pc more than in 2019, when 5.25 million tourists arrived in the first quarter.
The trend among the main countries of residence of foreign tourists arriving by air to Mexico in the first quarter of 2025 continues to be the United States, Canada, and Argentina, which totalled 5.19 million tourists, 7.4 pc more than in 2024, which is 28.6 pc higher than the 4.04 million tourists who arrived in 2019.
A total of 114,719 visitors from Argentina arrived, a 32.5 pc increase compared to 2024, when 86,586 Argentinian tourists were counted.
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