Mexico is expected to be the world's favorite tourist destination by 2022.

Foreign exchange income from international visitors to Mexico reached 18.428 billion dollars.

MEXICO CITY -Mexico will receive 31 million international tourists in 2021, representing an increase of 28.1 percent compared to 2020, according to preliminary estimates by the Ministry of Tourism released today, Friday.

Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco said in a statement that Mexico's tourism sector is in "frank recovery," after recalling that 24.2 million international travelers arrived in the country in 2020, a decline of 46.1 percent compared to 2019.

Foreign exchange income from international visitors to Mexico reached 18.428 billion dollars in 2021, an increase of 67.6 percent compared to 2020, according to the federal agency's estimates.

Average annual hotel occupancy was 45.9 percent, 19.9 percentage points above 2020, when the sector's activity plummeted due to the spread of the new coronavirus.

The secretary said traveler confidence has improved as a result of the implementation of vaccines against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in various regions and countries.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the tourism sector would have reached a 7.1 percent share of the economy as a whole in 2021, and it is expected that by 2022 the indicator will increase to at least 8.3 percent, he explained. With this data, Mexico would become one of the world's favorite countries for tourists.

In 2020, the tourism sector's GDP represented 6.7 percent of the economy, while in 2019 it was 8.5 percent, according to the agency.

Mexico's economy, the second largest in Latin America after Brazil, plummeted 8.2 percent in 2020, its worst record since the 1930s, due to the effects of COVID-19, according to the most recent official data.

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