Region Looking For More
Tourists From Cruise
Liners
The ministers of Tourism
from Mexico, Honduras,
El Salvador, Nicaragua
and Costa Rica met to
sign an agreement to
promote more cruse
liners visiting the
region, according to the
Secretaría de Turismo
mexicana (Sectur).
Sectur said that the
Declaración Conjunta de
Cozumel, as the
agreement is called,
hopes to better the
region, comprised of the
Caribbean, Mexico and
Central America,
competition for cruise
ship visits.
The objective of the
signing countries is to
create a regional
organization whose
details will be known in
the months to come.
According to Sectur
information, the area
known as the "Gran
Caribe" absords betweem
October and March two
thirds of world cruises.
Mexico says it will
invest us$37.4 million
dollars in developing
the "Marina Cozumel"
with the objective of
improving the tourism
infrastructure of the
area and is looking to
draw private investments
of us$190 million
dollars.
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