Might was one of many worst-performing months for passenger site visitors in Cancun in a number of years, in line with new information from ASUR, which manages Cancun Worldwide Airport.
Passenger site visitors in Cancun was 2.438 million in Might, a 7.2 % decline in comparison with the identical interval in 2023.
That included a 2.3 % discount in worldwide site visitors and a 14.7 % decline in home site visitors in Mexico.
It’s the primary main blip of the 12 months for Cancun, whose airport remains to be forward of final 12 months’s numbers by 6.4 % for the primary 5 months of the 12 months.
Whereas it’s not fairly clear the rationale for the decline, the Mexican Caribbean’s latest airport might be the perpetrator: white-hot Tulum, which now has a global airport of its personal and is already welcoming an enormous variety of flights from nearly each main US provider, from American Airways to Delta (and a few Canadian carriers, too).
Tulum is a couple of two-hour drive from Cancun. When Cancun was the one air hub for attending to Tulum, vacationers must fly to Cancun and both lease a automobile or discover a transportation firm. Now an growing variety of these vacationers are merely flying as an alternative to Tulum.
Journey brokers and tour operators are echoing that sentiment; ALG Holidays, for instance, says Tulum is the preferred vacation spot within the Caribbean proper now.
Whereas the numbers wouldn’t imply a decline for tourism to Mexico normally (in spite of everything, guests are nonetheless going to a Mexican vacation spot), it may level to the rising significance of Tulum as a tourism energy, each in Mexico and the area.
We’ll see how the remainder of 2024 performs out.
— CJ
