One of the main indicators that investment into Mexico real estate remains an excellent choice is the country’s ongoing strength and growth in tourism. Just this week, Mexico’s Ministry of Tourism reported that the number of international visitors by air between January and April this year was 4,098,750, which is an increase of 5.3 percent over the same period last year.
In the first four months of the year, Mexico experienced an increase in the number of visitors from 147 nations! During this period, the U.S. was the largest source of visitors with a total of more than 2,143,000.
The year’s total as of April 30 for some other major source countries were:
- Canada – 889,016 – increase of 2.2 %
- Argentina – 98,560 – increase of 27.4 %
- United Kingdom – 96,511 – increase of 11.5 %
- Brazil – increase of 69.5%
- France – increase of 8.3
- Germany – increase of 5.4%
- Italy – increase of 7%
- Columbia – increase of 20.6%
- Venezuela – increase of 36.8%
- Chile – increase of 13%
- Japan – increase of 18.4%
- Peru – increase of 33.3%
- Russia – increase of 71%
- Australia – increase of 11.1%
- Sweden– increase of 40.8%
- Costa Rica – increase of 14.6%
- Guatemala – increase of 83.4%
- South Korea – increase of 11.1%
- China – increase of 34.8%
(increases are as compared to the same period during 2011)
Mexico’s government has made a goal of being within the world’s top 5 destination countries within the decade and is taking concrete steps to make this goal reality. These numbers are a real indication that the strategies are working!
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