The tourism of Mexico: bankrupt industry

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She explain figures: The unemployment of U. S. A. and the "improvement" of Mexicans
The tourism of Mexico: bankrupt industry
By: Carlos Damián July 25, 2011
Truths be half-way and lack of reality
México. - The executive of the tourism ministry, Gloria Guevara Manzo (GGM), assured that the low in the revenue of currencies by tourism in the first five months of the year it should be to the high unemployment of The States, and the decrease of 20.5% in the tourist scale of the tetra–month of 2011. She mention that the Mexicans are traveling abroad and that they spend money on trip and them greater economic resources, because the economy in Mexico "that is all right".

The strategy of the markets diversification
She explain that the Americans travel less “to the world” because of the economic situation of the country, of where originates more than 70% of the tourists that stay in Mexico, and they have still a high unemployment index, up of the 9 percent. Data of the tourism ministry indicate that the Americans that travel abroad it have been reduced of 40 million in 2008 to 34.5 million of 2010, that is to say 5.5 million stopping of traveling.

In the fall of the rate of the American tourists index that travel to Mexico "is compensated" with those of other nations as Russia with increases of 58.1%; Brazil, 40.9%, and China with increase of 32.8%. Furthermore they traveled originating from Peru, tourists with a rate of the 46.5 percent, of January to May of 2011.

Lack of reality
The reports of the Bank of Mexico (BdeM, in Spanish) on the collapse of the tourist activity in the country, GGM tested a partial interpretation and sweetened on the tourist situation. Upon explaining the decrease rate fell in unreality and half truth in the reality. Though would be improper to ignore the persistent economic difficulties in the neighboring country of the north have negative impact in the development of the tourist activity in Mexico. However the reached collapses do not reach to be defined by variable strictly economic: in this logic of GGM would be difficult to explain that the performance in the first five months may have been even worse that registered it in the same period of 2009.

If we recall the most difficult effects to the past economic crisis and when the tourist activity was severely affected by the epidemic of flue A/H1N1. Of be certain the inverse relationship established by Guevara between the unemployment level in The States and the income by tourism in Mexico, between 2009 and 2011 would have had to be observed a growth, and not precisely a fall, in the tourist activity, all time that in that period the rate of The States unemployment descended of 10 to 9.1%. The insistence of the Tourism Ministry in attributing only to the deterioration in that sector to economic factors puts on relief a resistance to admit that the indicated decrease gravitate other elements, beginning by the violence climate, the lack of safety and loss of the state to right in Mexico.

Minimize GGM wastage of currency income in tourism
The fear expressed by the foreigners is not only perceptual matter, as has insisted the federal system of Calderon: in this second campaign of the fear, it is sustained in it human destruction balances that they have let in the Mexican society the confrontations underway, and also in the figures on the citizen American that they have died of violent way in national territory, those which have been balanced by the State Department in the trip alerts that it has issued for its peasant. Actually in the fact that the functionary federal exclude of its valuations an element that occupies a preponderant place in the preoccupations of the potential travelers Mexico, by not to mention it the uncertainty and uneasiness that there has cultivated field in Mexican population is naturalness sign not acceptable in the exercise of the federal government.

The affirmations of GGM not only despises data provided by the National Geography Institute and Statistics (INEGI, in Spanish), in the sense in fact that the revenue of the families has been collapsed in more than 2 percent between 2008 and 2010, but results paradigmatic of the sloth of the federal government before the great space of the poverty that it has taken place in the six months of federal government current. In a nutshell, beyond the inconsistencies and the truth to half-way, concern it is that the pronouncements of GGM continue revealing inadmissible features of the Calderon’s government: his insensibility toward the economic and social phenomena that affect to the population and its trend to govern of backs to the reality. (La Jornada, política, p. 14, July 19, 2011).