The island of Cozumel continues to increase its air connections with the inauguration of the new route with Philadelphia, which increases the markets to 12, eight of them in operation despite the pandemic.
The new connection arrived with 25 passengers on its maiden flight through the company American.
Yesterday also came a new frequency from Denver via Frontier airline, which brought 100 visitors, with which there are already two companies that cover that reactivated route, just last November.
Since the tourist reactivation began in July, after the confinement forced by the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, -19 have reached the destination more 689 thousand visitors, of which 30% did so by air and the remaining 70% by sea.
Frontier reconnects with the island of the swallows after six years of retiring, explained Ángel Pedro Hermosillo López, director of Tourism in the island, who stressed that this is a shows the confidence that airlines have in Cozumel to bring visitors, thanks to the fact that it is known as a safe destination in which sanitary protocols are strict, which is reflected in a low number of infections due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The flight frequency will be one every week in both casesOn Saturdays, this without ruling out that if there is a good response they can be increased, for which he said that a tourism promotion campaign is already underway in the main cities of the United States, a natural market for overnight visitors to Cozumel.
The campaign carried out with the support of the Quintana Roo Tourism Promotion Council (CPTQ) and the Isla Cozumel Hotel Association, it will be until March of this year and it will be emphasized that it is a safe destination to vacation, not only alone, but with the family.
Hermosillo López boasted that this week they registered 80 operations at the terminal managed by Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste.
Cozumel attracts international tourism
The island of Cozumel continues to attract interest from various markets. The following are the international air connections and passenger arrivals in 2020.
- Atlanta 7,790 passengers
- Charlotte 4,226
- Chicago 3,926
- Dallas 34,814
- Denver 2,647
- Detroit 551
- Houston 10,899
- Miami 8,108
- Minneapolis 8,808
- Montreal 3,490
- Toronto 7,927
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