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Cancun’s Troubles Go Beyond Mexico’s Super Peso
The country’s prime tourist destination needs to overcome multiple headwinds to reverse a sharp decline in international visitors.
That was then.
Photographer: Medios y Media/Getty Images South AmericaThis was a rough summer for Cancun.
Latin America’s top tourist destination suffered a surprising slump during a key holiday season. International passengers at the Cancun airport dropped almost 14% in July and August compared with the previous year, deepening a decline started in April. Americans, by far the largest group of foreign travelers to Mexico’s enchanting Caribbean beaches, overwhelmingly picked Europe as their preferred leisure spot.