Mexico wants more, better cruises

Entrepreneurs from the cruise sector will fork over almost $10 billion in Mexico in the next three years with the hope of creating over 120,000 new jobs.

Benjamin Mendez Aguila, communication coordinator for British company Seatrade Cruise, informed this investment package will bring about knock-down-drag-out competition between Mexico and Caribbean nations as far as this sector is concerned.

According to Mr. Aguila, national service providers should take their offer and quality up one peg to draw in hard-currency markets and generate new jobs.

As part of this effort, the Seatrade Cruise Review will take place next April 27 to 30 in Acapulco (Guerrero) to further commercial ties with the cruise industry and chiefly among Mexican providers.

In keeping with the figures disclosed by a Seatrade Cruise spokesperson, Mexico’s cruise line industry chalked up a 40 percent composite increase between 1991 and 2002 when it ferried an average of 4 million passengers every year.

As Mr. Aguila puts it, cruise tourists spend an average of $70 a day in the Mexican destinations they drop in on.