Foreign Tourists Shrug Off Mexico Drug Violence

Mexico for the third consecutive year saw an increase in foreign visitors,government tourism figures out Monday showed. Tourism is Mexico’s third most important source of hard currency, after oil exports and remittances by Mexicans living abroad.

Some 22.6 million foreigners visited Mexico in 2011, just slightly less than the record 23 million in 2008, the office of Tourism Secretary Gloria Guevara said in a statement.

The figure is two percent higher than 2010, and 5.7 percent higher than 2009, the statement said.

Source: Yahoo News!