Cancun, QRoo.- The National Tourism Business Council (CNET) joins the demand of the Cancun hotel sector to restore the electronic visa for Brazilian tourists visiting Mexico.
At a press conference in Cancun, the organization’s president, Braulio Arsuaga Losada, assured that the hotel sector reports losses of more than 80 million dollars since the reestablishment of visas to the Brazilian market and proof of this is the loss of five flights direct that there was between Cancun and the South American giant during 2022.
In terms of the number of visitors, the impact has been a loss of 92,784 visitors between September 2022 and February 2023, mainly in Cancun and Mexico City, according to data provided by the Center for Research and Tourism Competitiveness (Cicotur) of the Anahuac University. .
Arsuaga Losada has met with representatives of both the Mexican Foreign Ministry and the Migration Institute to restore the electronic visa, since otherwise the traditional life process is very tortuous for the Brazilian traveler as there are only three Mexican consulates in all Brazil that issue this document to be able to travel to Mexico.
The president of CNET recalled that in 2021 the electronic visa for Brazilians could be processed, but as of August 2022 that document was canceled to re-impose the physical visa.
Legislative exhortation
Just last April 13, the Committee on Foreign Relations for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Senate of the Republic approved with 14 votes in favor and one against the draft opinion, through which the Ministry of the Interior is urged to restore the issuance of electronic visas to Brazilian tourists who decide to enter the national territory by air.
In the opinion, this agency, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), is requested to reinforce the actions and measures that guarantee the agile and respectful entry into our country of tourists from Latin American and Caribbean countries. , that meet the requirements of our immigration laws and provisions.
Senator Marybel Villegas Canché, from Morena, explained that the visa has had a negative impact on the tourism industry in Quintana Roo, because since that date around 60 percent of the tourists that came from that country “no longer set foot on Mexican lands.” .
According to figures from the legislator, in 2021, 21,134 South American citizens were rejected at the Cancun International Airport, mainly from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador, which in turn represented 65% of all immigration rejections throughout the year.
