LatinNews Daily - 20 June 2025

*Mexico’s tourism ministry (Sectur) has announced that Mexico maintained its position as the sixth most visited country in the world in 2024, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism). Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora announced that 45m international tourists had visited Mexico in 2024, a 7.4% increase on 2023. Rodríguez added that, according to the national statistics institute (Inegi), 86.4m international visitors (comprising tourists and day trippers) had visited Mexico in 2024, up 15.5% on 2023. She said that spending from these visitors totalled US$33bn, up 7.4% on 2023. Rodríguez noted that the upwards trend appeared to be continuing this year, with 31.5m international visitors recorded in the first four months of the year, up 13.3% on the same period of 2024. Spending by visitors in this period totalled US$13.3bn, up 6.4% on the first four months of 2024. The tourism minister noted that, as part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Plan México economic programme, the aim was for Mexico to rise to fifth place in the world ranking of most visited countries by 2030.

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