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The Secretary of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, Miguel Torruco Marqués, stressed that the Mayan Train will be a trigger for the economy, employment and well-being of the communities, by contributing to balanced development that ends the contrasts between tourist paradises and marginalized belts .
While presiding over the First Ordinary Session of the Tourism Consultative Council (CCT) 2022, the head of the Tourism Secretariat (Sectur) welcomed the officials of the dependencies that make up this collegiate body, as well as the representatives of chambers and associations of the tourism sector and the academic field, with whom the national tourism policy and its new development model are conducted through coordinated and inter-institutional work.
During this work meeting, the progress of the Mayan Train was announced, a project that will benefit the Mexican southeast, the most disadvantaged region of the country, promoting greater productivity, an increase in economic benefits, job creation, promotion of sustainable development, protection of the environment and land use planning.
Torruco Marqués pointed out that throughout the 1,554 kilometers of extension, this work will connect the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Yucatán, with 20 stations, which along its route will have more than 190 tourist attractions of high impact.
For her part, Violeta Giorgina Abreu González, director of Strategic Management and Institutional Liaison of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), explained that the Mayan Train is 47.38% complete in Sections 1 to 4, and confirmed that it will be inaugurated in December 2023.
He explained that, through the Program for the Improvement of Archaeological Zones (PROMEZA), work is being done on 26 archaeological zones that will have adequate conditions to receive tourists; likewise, there will be 11 Visitor Service Centers (CATVIS).
Those attending this First Ordinary Session of the CCT agreed on the importance of this project, and highlighted the actions carried out within the scope of their functions, to promote the economic and social development of this region.
Torruco Marqués declared: “At the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, we are convinced of the added value generated by mechanisms of democratic participation in the formulation and execution of all institutional policies. The Tourism Advisory Council is a space in which the best strategies to undertake in favor of our beloved sector are analysed, discussed and deliberated”.
He added that this forum makes it possible to influence the objectives of other public sectors, and thereby incorporate and further strengthen the mainstreaming of tourism activity in the programs or strategies that are associated, directly or indirectly, with the country’s tourism.
“It is thanks to this concurrence that we have been able to give good results and continue to show improvement in the main indicators of the tourism sector in our country, after two very complicated years due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” he commented.
He emphasized that at the end of 2021, Mexico occupied the second position in the world ranking in the arrival of international tourists, and the ninth in foreign exchange earnings, which is how the tourist potential of a nation is measured, recalling that in 2018, Mexico It placed the world level in the seventeenth place in this last item.
“These macroeconomic data tell us that we are on the right path, fulfilling the mandate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to make tourism a source of progress, well-being for Mexicans, and a true tool for social reconciliation,” concluded the Minister. Secretary of Tourism.
In the same way, he reiterated that by the end of this year, the arrival of 42 million 301 thousand international tourists is expected, only 6% below 2019, leaving a historical economic spill of the order of 26 thousand 121 million dollars, exceeding in 6.3% registered in 2019.
The foregoing thanks to the policies implemented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during the pandemic, by not restricting international flights; the implementation of biosanitary protocols in a joint effort between the private initiative, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Tourism; as well as the implementation of the national vaccination plan.
Present at this meeting on behalf of Sectur were Humberto Hernández Haddad, Undersecretary of Tourism; Alejandro Aguilera Gómez, head of the Information and Monitoring Unit; Mauricio Aarón Reyna Guerrero, head of the Tourism Policy and Innovation Unit; Sandra Berenice Meza Pérez, head of the Administration and Finance Unit; Ignacio Rafael Martínez Soreque, General Director of Legal Affairs; and José Armando García Nuño, general director of Planning and executive secretary of the CCT.
In addition, there was the participation of representatives of the Secretariats of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu); of wellness; of Economy; Environment and Natural Resources; as well as the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Conapred); from the National Institute for Women; of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco); of the Mexican Youth Institute (Imjuve), among others.
The business and academic sector was represented by Raúl Isaac Hernández Peña, Vice President of Innovation and Technology of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur); Juan José Fernández Carrillo, president of the Mexican Association of Hotels and Motels (AMHM); Fernando Olivera Rocha, Vice President of Tourism of the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Seasoned Food Industry (Canirac); Carmen Julia Corrales, executive president of the National Tourism Business Council (CNET); Paul Sánchez Acosta, Manager of Operations and Marketing of the Mexican Association of Tourism Developers (Amdetur); and Jesús Aragón Sarmiento, head of the Research Department of the Higher School of Tourism of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).