Quintana Roo.- During a monitoring tour in the works of the Maya Train, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) predicted that by the end of 2020 tourism will be normalized in southeastern Mexico.From an urban improvement event in the municipality of Solidaridad, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, the representative highlighted that at the end of the year the situation in some sectors of the country would be “similar to that of before Covid-19″.
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We’re going to keep recovering,” he said.
López Obrador claimed that coronavirus deaths and contagions are going down in Mexico, which has become Johns Hopkins University in the fourth most death-de-death country in the world.
As the effects of the pandemic are already coming down, as there is already a recovery in tourism, which is the main activity of Quintana Roo, tourists are gradually already arriving,” he said.
The havoc that the infectious disease has left on national soil amounts to approximately 84,000 dead and about 815,000 positive cases, with a recent weekly uptick of 2% in the infected, which stopped a downward trend of nine weeks.How has the tourism industry been affected?
First of all, it is important to mention that the tourism sector in Mexico generates about 8.7% of the country’s gross domestic product, a figure that was reduced by the health and economic crisis that covid-19 brought with it, as GDP was about 48%. Contrary to pesidente AMLO’ stated, the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) has recognized that the industry will not fully recover until 2023. The representative justified his opinion by considering Quintana Roo to have unique beaches in the world.
Quintana Roo has a lot to offer, the beauties of the beaches of Quintan Roo, with all due respect, are not have in other parts of the world, that is why the economic and tourist activity will be recovered”, he highlighted.
