Cancun, QR. cancun already exceeds by 12% the volume of passengers registered in 2019, that is, before the pandemic. It is already shaping up to be the best year in terms of tourism for the entity.
According to the monthly report Southeast Airport Group (Asur), between January and July of this year, air traffic to and from cancun already adds 17.4 million travelers, which represents an increase of 12% compared to 15.6 million mobilized in 2019 and a growth of 47.2% compared to 2021.
In terms of international traffic, the terminal has mobilized 11.8 million travelers, that is, 12.7% more than what was mobilized in 2019, while in national travelers the figure is 5.6 travelers between January and July of this year, that is, 10.6 % more compared to the same period.
Just this week, the Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torrucoannounced that cancun It leads at the national level in terms of the number of airplane seats scheduled for this 2022, coming from international destinations, with 11.6 million (35.8%) of the 32.5 million that Mexico will capture.
To the air terminal cancun they are followed in offer of seats by international airlines the Mexico City with 29.3% (9.5 million) and Guadalajara y San Jose del Cabo in third place with 8.2% (2.6 million), respectively.
The first three places concentrate 73.3% of the total seats scheduled by international airlines to Mexico, that is, 23.8 million of the total offer during the first half and the remainder of this 2022.
air routes
In addition to this, the 10 main routes from destinations abroad to Mexico concentrate 16.7% of the total offer of seats during this year. Among those 10, three are flights from the United States to cancunand in fact the route with the highest number of seats for this year is Dallas-Cancún with 740,214, that is, 2.3% of the total offer to Mexico.
In separate information, from the Office of Migratory Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, between January and June of this year, the arrival of 6 million 659,657 travelers from the United States, the largest issuing market of tourists to Mexico, is reported.
Of that total, the International Airport of cancun captured 2.8 million, followed by the Mexico City with 801,213 and San José del Cabo with 1 million travelers. In other words, in the reference period, the Mexican Caribbean has captured 43% of all US visitors who have entered the country during the first half of the year.
The second country with the highest number of air travelers who entered the airports of Mexico was Canadians, with 859,580 tourists, of that total, 472,525 entered through Cancun, that is, 55% of the total captured at the national level.
The third most important market is Colombia, which issued a total of 412,542 tourists to Mexico during the first half of the year. Of this total, 199,133 travelers entered our country by air through the Cancun International Airportthat is, 48.2% of that market at the national level.
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