And while cruise could see a Mexico bump, what about overnight tourism?
2024 has been a bumper year so far as Belize has already surpassed 2019's record numbers.
But, there are reports of a shaky start to this year's high season in the overnight sector. We asked him whether the US elections had any impact on this and he says that the numbers don't lie.
Evan Tillet, Director of Tourism
"I don't know where you guys are getting your numbers from but as of November we are close to surpassing 2019 in fact as of today we are beyond 2019 numbers and so 2024 will be the new benchmark here in terms of tourism arrivals overnight tourism arrivals. Currently I think we are 12.2 % above 2019 and we hope to finish at even a better position than that."
"I think the numbers are up because 1 we did a lot of strategic marketing when we came in and I think post Covid we did the right things we calibrated we started and we re engineered and we definitely looked at the marketing campaign and we went and took a deep dive and ensured that we do the marketing in such a manner that it is strategic from the perspective that we look at all the places we have direct flights from and we market all the areas that lead up to those source market areas."
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