Mexico Tourism Makes a Recovery
Only weeks ago, Leila Voight was trying to persuade hesitant tourists to visit her secluded cabanas south of Cancun. Now, they are begging her for rooms.
Her e-mail is clogged with as many as 30 messages a day from New Yorkers who live near ground zero and others who want to trade nightly news reports on war and terrorism for pina coladas and strolls on the beach.
Hotel owners and government officials across Mexico say tourism has largely returned to normal after dropping 12% after the Sept. 11 attacks. The resort of Acapulco has more international flights than before the terror attacks.
Mexico is one of the few countries to have seen such a recovery.
It appears to have an attractive combination: It’s relatively cheap and--for U.S. residents--close to home.
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