Mexico Plans to Strengthen Tourism Sector The News
go to original March 24, 2012

Representing Quintana Roo Governor Roberto Borge Angulo at the National Governors’ Conference’s (Conago) Tourism Committee, State Secretary of Tourism Juan Carlos González Hernández proposed a 10-point strategy to improve the tourism sector, to achieve the goals established in the National Tourism Agreement, and to make tourism the driving force behind the country’s efforts to become the seventh-largest economy in the world by 2020.

Borge Angulo is the president of the Conago’s Tourism Committee, which met on Wednesday.

The governor’s proposals called for an “open-skies” policy for tourist destinations to increase the number of airline flights and ease visa restrictions for countries with strong potential tourism markets for Mexico and for broadening of the scope of the “Magical Towns” and “Colonial Cities” programs.

They were unanimously supported.

The proposals also argued for the creation of a pre-entry clearance system among states, and to improve and streamline immigration and customs agencies to make entry into Mexico easier, and to avoid lost luggage.

The strategy also proposed the allocation of more resources to the promotion of tourism, financial incentives for foreign investment, and for the prevention of damage to the environment.

González Hernández said that urgent measures are needed to support the most profitable sector in the country; only oil exports and remittances sent home by Mexicans working abroad bring more money into the country than tourism.

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