
International and domestic tourism in Mexico
With the largest number of international tourist arrivals among Latin American and Caribbean countries, Mexico alone accounted for approximately one-quarter of the region’s international tourism revenue in 2019. By a wide margin, the United States is the main source market for Mexico’s inbound tourism. In 2020, arrivals of air travelers with U.S. residency were nearly three times higher than the combined number of air passenger arrivals from the other 11 leading countries of origin for international tourism in Mexico.Nonetheless, it is domestic tourism the main driver of the sector’s economy. Throughout the 2010s, the tourism consumption by domestic travelers more than tripled the expenditure of inbound and outbound tourists. In that same decade, the number of domestic overnight guests in Mexican hotels climbed by 39 percent, peaking at more than 60 million in 2019.