Risky business? Balancing Mexico’s pandemic response with tourism
Along the beaches of Mexico, typically teeming with vacationers, there is a struggle between two powerful forces that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon: The very real concern for health and safety during the pandemic and an equally valid concern for economic survival.
, it has some of the world’s loosest entry requirements for foreigners. Visitors aren’t required to submit negative test results, and there is no mandatory quarantine.
The pandemic’s economic effect on the tourism industry has still been devastating.
The world’s seventh most popular tourist destination, Mexico’s economy has grown to depend on what amounted in 2019 to about $25 billion in income from 45 million international visitors, according to estimates from the National Tourism Business Council (CNET) and a center for tourism research at Universidad Anáhuac.
Mexico is trying to balance two powerful forces: The very real concern for health and safety during the pandemic and an equally valid concern for economic survival that depends on tourism. Find out how the country is faring.