LatinNews Daily - 12 October 2020

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that the number of tourists entering the country fell by 62.2% in August compared with the same month in 2019. Despite being one of the few countries in the region to keep its borders open to tourists through the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, just 1.35m arrived in August, down from 3.6m the previous year. This represents an improvement on the 74.8% year-on-year decline in tourist numbers recorded in June (the lowest ebb for an industry that makes up almost 9% of Mexico’s GDP), but Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco Marqués has warned that the sector will not fully recover until 2023.

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