Day of the Dead Boosts Mexican Caribbean Tourism

Cancún, Mexico — The tourism sector in the Mexican Caribbean is rebounding with the Day of the Dead holiday bridge and the start of November, as hotel occupancy in Cancún and Isla Mujeres moves closer to 70 percent, with expectations for a further increase by the end of the year.

This past weekend, the Cancún airport again approached 500 flights in a single day, suggesting a recovery from the atypically low levels seen during September and October. The airport hit its lowest point at the beginning of September, when only 341 flights were recorded in a single day, the lowest figure of the year.

However, for Saturday, November 1, Southeast Airports reported a total of 496 flights, the highest number in a single day since the second half of August. This indicates that for approximately a month and a half, the terminal maintained scant activity, remaining below 500 daily flights.

The state Secretary of Tourism, Bernardo Cueto Riestra, anticipated that for the final two months of the year, at least twenty seasonal flights will be reactivated, primarily from Europe and Canada. These are markets whose residents seek to escape the low temperatures in their countries to spend the winter in more temperate latitudes like the Mexican Caribbean.

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The strengthening of air connectivity, he said, is a fundamental part of the strategy to relaunch Tulum, but also of the entire Mexican Caribbean, as there will be announcements regarding free access to the beaches of several destinations in the northern zone of the state.

Finally, Bernardo Cueto Riestra advanced that for November, in addition to the rebound from the Day of the Dead holiday, a high influx of visitors is also expected at the end of the month due to the celebration of Thanksgiving, an American holiday that generates a significant flow of tourists from that country to the Mexican Caribbean.

"We expect many tourists for Thanksgiving, which is very important for our state, because we annually receive more than seven million American tourists, and for November we will also have the opportunity in this very important season, both from the November holiday bridge in Mexico, which is already an international tourist attraction, and from our festivals of life and death in all our destinations and municipalities," he said.