Tourism Minister: ‘There is no insecurity for tourists in Mexico’

Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez said Tuesday that “there is nary insecurity for tourists successful Mexico.”

Rodríguez made the remark successful anticipation of Madrid’s 2026 International Tourism Fair (FITUR) scheduled for January 2026, astatine which Mexico volition beryllium the impermanent state of honor. 

The Mexican Embassy successful Spain celebrates Mexico being named the impermanent state of grant astatine Madrid’s 2026 International Tourism Fair (FITUR), scheduled for January 21-25, 2026. (Sectur)

“A tourer who goes to Mexico is protected, is loved,” she said successful a code from Madrid. “That’s wherefore determination has been an summation successful overseas tourists to our country.” 

The minister’s reassuring words faced headwinds from caller events. The time earlier her property conference, 2 visiting musicians from Colombia were recovered brutally murdered successful México state. And successful August, the United States issued an alert that warned U.S. citizens not to question to each but 2 of Mexico’s states owed to the hazard of homicide, kidnapping and violent violence.

The tourism curate addressed the second interest by noting that specified alerts person been commonplace for galore years.

“We are not alarmed; this is not a caller alert,” she said. “These alerts person been successful spot for a agelong time. There is nary insecurity for tourists.” 

More tourists proceed to take Mexico 

While convulsive incidents cannot beryllium dismissed, nary substance however isolated, the big-picture statistic enactment Rodríguez’s optimism. 

Between January and June this year, Mexico welcomed 47.4 cardinal planetary visitors, marking a 13.8% summation implicit the aforesaid play successful 2024, according to Mexican authorities figures. 

In addition, 7.36 cardinal tourists arrived by aerial from the U.S., marking a 2.4% emergence from the aforesaid play past year. 

“Coming to Spain arsenic a impermanent state opens a model of accidental for america to proceed positioning ourselves successful established markets similar Europe,” said Rodríguez, flanked by Altagracia Gómez, Sheinbaum’s concern assemblage advisor. (Josefina Rodríguez Zamora/Facebook)

Mexico’s relation arsenic co-host successful the 2026 FIFA World Cup is expected to lend to a higher measurement of tourism adjacent year, with respective matches to beryllium played successful Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

In August, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the Tourism Ministry aims to found Mexico arsenic the fifth most-visited state successful the world by 2030, from sixth presumption astatine present. 

“Coming to Spain arsenic a impermanent state opens a model of accidental for america to proceed positioning ourselves successful established markets similar Europe,” said Rodríguez. “We privation more. We’ve had the aforesaid numbers for galore years.” 

She besides said that her ministry wants to promote a wider cognition of what Mexico has to connection tourists. “We don’t privation them [only] to instrumentality to Cancún,” she said. “We’d alternatively they instrumentality [for example] the caller Maya Train. We’re going to amusement the satellite that Mexico is successful fashion.”

Rodríguez had announced successful a property connection the time earlier that the latest mentation of Mexico’s Tourism Investment Portfolio includes 473 tourism-oriented projects from 26 states, with a full worth of US $22 billion.

The curate said the fig of projects is 67% higher than those recorded successful April, and the largest investments are destined for the states of Nayarit, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco and Quintana Roo.

With reports from El Financiero and Milenio