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<\/a>been 5.7 million tourists in Mexico, and 6.1 million next year. While that’s only about a third the population of the capital city, what’s staggering is the impact those six million visitors have. At a trade show in Cozumel<\/a>, the country’s new secretary of tourism — Enrique de la Madrid Cordero — told Travel Weekly<\/a> (among others) that tourism represents nine per cent of Mexico’s GDP.<\/p>\nIt employs eight million people.<\/p>\n
With more comfort about Mexico’s security improvements, four cruise lines will make port calls along the Mexican Riviera during the next two winters — Carnival<\/a>, Norwegian<\/a>, Holland America<\/a> and Princess<\/a>. If our memory is accurate, there was a time when only Carnival was there.<\/p>\n American Airlines<\/a> is adding flights to Mazatlan<\/a>. New hotels are being built. Shore excursions for cruise passengers are better than ever.<\/p>\n Everybody knows what the attractions are in Mexico, starting with the weather. Besides that, there’s something else that (to us) never changes;<\/p>\n The people.<\/p>\n Said de la Madrid Cordero: ““We are aware that we are in a world of constant competition. Our secret weapon [is] the Mexican people, a population that likes to treat people well.”<\/p>\n And why not? Treating people well is clearly Mexico’s bread and butter.<\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n • Carnival, Chinese shipbuilder to develop domestic cruise line in China Today at <\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/strong><\/em>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n If you’ve been reading our meanderings these last almost-six years (and of course you have, right?), then you know that we have a soft spot for Mexico. You know that when things goes sour south of the border, we feel badly and sometimes even defensive. You know when things go well, we raise a glass… Continue reading Mexico: Why Tourists Matter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,31,15],"tags":[137,154,387,912,72,819,35,23,496,542,102,126,680,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-25865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-cozumel","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-holland-america","tag-mazatlan","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-jade","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t• Silversea flagship Silver Muse to raise bar on luxury suites in 2017
\n\t• Anthem of the Seas two weeks away from permanent New York home<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\n\tNorwegian Jade<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tJanuary 2, 2016
\n\tHouston<\/a> (return): Cozumel<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, Roatan<\/a>
\n\tInside: $459
\n\tCost per day: $65<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"