Miguel Torruco Marqués announced that, during the first seven months of 2024, the arrival of tourists to hotel rooms was 48.9 million tourists; of which, 35.2 million were national tourists, representing 72.1% of the total, and 13.7 million were foreigners, representing 27.9% of the total in the 70 centers monitored by DataTur.
The head of the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) reported that, from January to July of this year, cities registered 27.6 million tourists in hotel rooms, while beach resorts received 21.3 million tourists in hotel rooms.
He indicated that, during this period, hotel occupancy reached 60.2% in all of the monitored centers, while, in city destinations, 52.8% was recorded, which in relation to the 52.2% recorded in the same period of 2023, means an increase of 0.7 percentage points, while, for beach centers, the occupancy level was 68.3%.
He noted that, from January to July 2024, the tourist centers that stand out for hotel occupancy are: Playacar with 89%, Akumal with 81.6%, Cabo San Lucas with 80.3%, Nuevo Nayarit with 80.2%, Cancun 77.2%, and Puerto Vallarta with 73.9%, being the destinations with the highest levels of occupancy.
Torruco Marqués pointed out that, in contrast, the extremes with the highest occupancy are the Integrated Planned Centers with 74.9% and the inland cities with 48%.
In the first seven months of this year, the average number of occupied rooms reached 263,234 units, which is 0.3% more than in the same period last year.
For beach resorts, an average of 141,519 occupied rooms were recorded, while in city destinations, the number of occupied rooms was 121,715, which represents an increase of 1.9% compared to the same period in 2023.
In turn, in the months from January to July 2024, the average number of available rooms reached a level of 437,396 units, that is, 0.3% more than the same period of the previous year.
The Secretary of Tourism stressed that, in this same period, beach resorts registered an average of 207,062 available rooms, while in the same period of 2023 there were 207,095, maintaining the same percentage variation compared to the same period of the previous year.
During this period, for city destinations, the average number of available rooms was 230,334, which represents a growth of 0.6% compared to January-July 2023.
Torruco Marqués pointed out that the hotel industry is the backbone of tourism activity, and added that from 2019 to 2023, 87 thousand new hotel rooms were registered in the country, which, added to the existing ones, give a total of 895 thousand rooms, which according to estimates, this year will exceed 900 rooms in 25 thousand lodging establishments, strengthening Mexico in the seventh world position in hotel infrastructure in the different destinations of the country; which translates into economic spillover and benefits to the local population in compliance with the instruction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to make tourism a tool for social reconciliation.
Source: SECTUR.