The quartet has a message for those back home who are, in terms of Archer, "burning the telephone", with messages of concern in their classes to the Mexico. The country has made the headlines with related to the drug-war kidnappings and murders, and the US State Department has had a warning for travel to the Mexico in place since the fall, although it is mainly the cities border and prey to violence from cities like Acapulco and Monterreywhich are across the Cancun Mexico. Cruise ships have been stopping calls to Mazatlán. Recently, the Department of public safety of Texas took an unusual step of counseling students to avoid spring breaks to the South of the border.
"We have not been decapitated" Archer, a dental assistant in 26 years, said with a smile. "We have had no problem." "People need to chill out."
Apart from the crowd of spring breakers celebrates around it, the Americans are not doing that. Cancun said that he welcomed $ 5.9 million international visitors last year, up to more than 400,000 in 2009. But this year, some have cancelled travel, tour operators as Funjet Vacations.
Cancun - trying to maintain its position as the No. 1 vacation destination - in the Caribbean reinforced security in the tourist zone. Funjet is flying in more than 200 top U.S. travel agents the week next to assure the security of the region.
Despite Mexican tourism, visits by Americans responsible for optimistic projections "is flat at a time where there should be growing, Funjet President Mike goes." "" This is only step for as many problems do not exist. But the hype and nervousness "" at the resort areas such as Cancun and the Riviera Maya South"are mainly unfounded." ?
"Safer people are tourists," Erandeni Abundis of the Bureau of the Convention & visitors Cancun said during lunch in a restaurant with view on the famous blue-green sea. "We depend on tourism." We could not afford to lose. "To accommodate the Americans, visitors can now dial 911 in Cancun emergency instead the 066 using locals, she said.
Abundis said "not one" Tourism of Cancun was killed in violence linked to drug-cartel. The State of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun and populous resort Riviera Maya, represents more than 50% of the Mexico of international tourism revenue, said Jésus Almaguer, Director General of the Office of the visitors to Cancun.
Crime statistics are difficult to obtain. The Cancun visitors Office could not provide immediately. Department of State publishes a list of deaths of American citizens to the Mexico natural, required to be updated every six months. He gets the stats of the Mexican Government, and they are not always complete, said Maureen Reynolds of Woburn, mass., whose son Nolan drowned in Cancun in 2007 and no was not on the list until she intervened. In the first six months of 2010, 18 Americans dead on the Riviera Maya and Cancun, Cozumel, said of the list. Most of them drowned.
Care to keep particularly calm Cancun this year is obvious from the moment where that a visitor arrives at the airport. Outside of the room of customs, a police officer in camouflage cradles a rifle. A dozen "tourism advisors" in white shirt and khaki pants greet visitors and would open the way touts transport passed to approved airport transport.
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