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Most cruisers are familiar with Quintana Roo. Mexico’s Eastern-most state is home to some of the most popular cruise and travel destinations in all the Caribbean, including Cozumel and Cancun.
While the area has been hit hard by the lack of visitors in 2020, it looks like things may be turning around. According to Marisol Vanegas Pérez, the region’s State Secretariat of Tourism, Quintana Roo saw nearly 1 million travelers between December 22 and January 6.
The jump in tourists was so large, in fact, that hotels and resorts around the state requested to increase their capacity limits past 60% to accomodate all the travelers. In an interview with Riviera Maya News, a local newspaper, Pérez noted that many of the visiting tourists were Americans.
After nine months of travel lockdown, 2020 hindsight takes on new relevance as we grapple with how things could have been done differently, but then again who could have imagined the havoc that a renegade virus would wreak on the travel industry.
Finishing out 2019 with a Transatlantic cruise from Lisbon to Ft. Lauderdale aboard the Crystal Serenity, Cheryl and I looked forward to the holidays at home before heading out on a banner year of planned cruises in 2020.
Searching to minimize a marathon flight in February to join the Viking Orion in Sydney, we settled on a one stop Air China flight that was routed through Beijing and onward to Australia. That plan was thwarted when news began cropping up in a place called Wuhan, China. Aborting that flight plan and changing direction through Istanbul turned out to be a prudent decision.