16. Abraham Garay Velázquez, General Director of Trust for Acapulco’s tourism board, says the city is suffering. DBL. That said, for tourists insisting on visiting Mexico, whether next week or six months from now, consider supporting Mexican-owned boutique hotels (keep local businesses alive, financially, somewhat), Airbnbs, and Vrbos.

Juan David Orozco, chef and co-owner of Jardín Alquimia in Todos Santos, has picked up side jobs as he found himself without work. But the outbreak has arrived. In late June, the World Bank estimated that Mexico’s economy would fall by about 7.5 percent, compared with 6.1 percent in the U.S. and 5.2 percent worldwide. State laws in Baja California Sur have forced the bar to close by 10 p.m. Freddy Dominguez, VP of Account Management in Latin America for Travel Partners Group at Expedia Group, the world’s largest online travel booking system, says restoring travel in the region will take an “unprecedented level of partnership” between the public and private sectors. But for now, from Mexico City to Oaxaca and beyond, many parts of the country are bustling in a more or less typical manner. Mexico was closed to tourism until June 1, when the first tourists arrived in Los Cabos and then to Cancún on June 11. $2,000,845. Which is exactly where we find ourselves now. Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell, who has held daily, televised conferences since early March argued from the beginning that Mexico’s social situation as a developing country (with 50 percent of the population living in poverty and the street economy accounting for more than half of the workforce) meant the vast majority of people would not be able to quarantine for a long period of time. Much of this fall can be directly linked to the sudden drop in international tourism brought on by the pandemic. Most restaurants, including small mom and pop shops, have added delivery as a commonplace option. Receiving 10 million cruiseship and 50 million international airline passengers per year, most of those between Thanksgiving and Easter, it’s likely the virus was here sooner.

If you’re going to travel anywhere, especially by air, you have to consider what you’ll be bringing with you. One strong blow, and the entire machine crashes. On the other hand, knowing how much of your money is going to staff who depend on it versus the hotel owners who make a killing off of paying low wages, is nearly impossible. Traveling to a country for fun during the middle of its pandemic crisis is silly. This just weeks after a group of University of Texas-Austin spring breakers, with the blessing of their travel agents, decided to continue with their trip to Los Cabos and 27 wound up testing positive for the virus. Prize Money. Total Financial Commitment. Without changing anything about our social and economic systems, yes. It was first played in 1944 at the Club de Golf Chapultepec. The pressure … Markets are open with many workers wearing face masks and others not. Mexico has long been good to foreign tourists who are eager to return. M exico, the world’s 6th most popular tourist destination, is open for tourism business despite its cases of COVID-19 being on the rise. Mexico confirmed its first three cases on February 28, during the height of the country’s international tourism season. The number of COVID-19 infections has doubled in Latin America over the past two months, topping 2 million in late June; Mexico with 200,000 cases since the pandemic began. Unfortunately, people who depend on tourism will have to make choices between COVID-19 risk and earning money. $1,845,265. “As stated by the governor of the state, Héctor Astudillo, the most important thing at the moment is the health of the people of Guerrero, however, after three months of contingency, the economic situation is very difficult for companies and workers in Acapulco and the social pressure is increasing,” Garay Velázquez says, pointing to Mexico’s color-coded alert system, divided by state, for the COVID-19 phases. “To overcome this crisis, the tourism industry, and, especially, small businesses, need support and concrete actions.”, Dominguez cites 2019 World Travel & Tourism Council data that states “the travel sector generated almost 17 million jobs in Latin America, this is, almost 8 percent of the total workforce in Latin America. But none of it is good. With differentiation from state to state, businesses which were forced to close in April reopened in early June, despite rising numbers of COVID-19. 32. These numbers represent about a quarter of pre-pandemic normalcy, but flight frequency is expected to rise soon. The state of Guerrero has lost 50,000 formal jobs since the beginning of the pandemic, most of which were in Acapulco, Garay Velázquez says. You are likely to have your temperature tested at the airport. Are there people who need you to travel here in order for them to survive? Acapulco, Mexico. Hard. She has a history of newsroom journalism as well as non-profit administration and works with international and Mexican publications.

Yet, in many ways, going to a resort at 30 percent or 60 percent capacity where you can order room service delivered under highly sanitized conditions and spend most of the day isolated with a view or outside, appropriately distanced from other people, is the best way to travel to Mexico right now. With a lack of government help, many of its people need to go back to work to survive—but does that mean you should go? “We closed really early; at the beginning of March and have been closed since,” Orozco says. To reinvent how the bar can sell cocktails, Jardín Alquimia began bottling signature cocktails for home delivery. The ethical, honorable and only reasonable way to travel right now (besides not traveling right now) is to assume you could be a carrier, and realize that the people whom you come into contact with might not have the same access to quality healthcare that you do. The only economic assistance afforded to Mexican citizens during the lockdown period were advances in social security pensions for older citizens.

Numbers of international travelers were up significantly earlier this year, as people find themselves attracted to the old port town and its combination of beach beauty, history and party zone, but COVID-19 halted it all. As in the U.S., probably the people running these hotels and other accommodations are in the upper middle to upper class range, but they are more likely to directly support small, local businesses than big block hotels and can help you find an appropriate way to do so as well. The Mexican Open or Abierto Mexicano de Golf is the national open golf tournament of Mexico. And this has proved largely true. Reluctant to close before its big bang Easter tourism season, Mexico eventually did so. Mostly by going off the beaten path and finding things for yourself and paying those people directly. Explore other popular cuisines and restaurants near you from over 7 million businesses with over 142 million reviews and opinions from Yelpers. Acapulco, Mexico’s first international beach town, remains closed as the country’s daily rate of COVID-19 infections on the rise, with between 3-5,000 new cases per day as of mid June. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in a country where the informal economy dominates at about 60 percent of the workforce. Megan Frye is an independent journalist and translator living in Mexico. The pressure to reopen comes from economic need, as tourism accounts for about 10 percent of Mexico's economy, directly. But how to care for those whose livelihoods depend on our whims and vices? Across the globe, countries, states and cities are experiencing different waves of the virus. Nick Kyrgios branded the Mexican Open crowd “disrespectful” after being booed off the court in Acapulco. Border status report: Americans and Canadians won't be able to cross the border in either …

It was an event on the Tour de las Américas between 2003 and 2006, being co-sanctioned by the European Challenge Tour from 2004 to 2007. Heavily populated by full-time foreign residents (many retired) who followed the World Health Organization’s recommended lockdown from the beginning, Orozco doesn’t imagine even the slow season seeing normal revenue as many such residents, loyal clients who help the bar get through the slow summer months, continue with voluntary shelter-in-place lifestyles.

While the land border is closed, if you go to Mexico via air, you will not be alone.

Choosing to support local businesses on your next trip would be a good start. The Mexican Open (currently sponsored by Telcel and HSBC and called the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presented by HSBC) is a joint professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, and held annually in late February at the Fairmont Acapulco Princess in Acapulco, Mexico. Rafael Nadal's 10 standalone ATP Masters 1000 records, 2020 Mexican Open: Rafael Nadal's journey to glory in Acapulco, 3 longest gaps between titles at the same ATP tournament, Revisiting all of Rafael Nadal's 3 Acapulco titles, 2020 Mexican Open Final: Rafael Nadal defeats Taylor Fritz to clinch his third title in Acapulco, 3 talking points from the 2020 ATP Acapulco Open, 2020 Mexican Open: Heather Watson vs Leylah Annie Fernandez final | Where to watch, live stream details and more, 2020 Mexican Open: Rafael Nadal vs Taylor Fritz, Final | Where to watch, live stream details and more, 2020 ATP Acapulco Open Final Preview: Nadal to take on Fritz for the title, Mexican Open 2020: Can Dimitrov stop Nadal in their upcoming semifinal at Acapulco? "Mexico Open joins Nationwide Tour schedule in 2008", "Mexico Open rescheduled due to swine flu", "Mexico Open rescheduled for first week of September", Coverage on the European Tour's official site (2004–06), Roberto De Vicenzo Punta del Este Open Copa NEC, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexican_Open_(golf)&oldid=957012575, Recurring sporting events established in 1944, Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 May 2020, at 15:14. At press time, half of Mexico’s states remain under level red and half under level orange. In 2009, due to the outbreak of swine flu, the Mexican Open was rescheduled from May to September. Once it changes to orange, hotels will be able to 30 percent capacity, in yellow at 60 percent and in green at 100 percent. Now, Jardín Alquimia is set to open the last week of June, right as Todos Santos enters the slowest part of the year for tourism. The goal of the blockade, which lasted more than a week, was to prevent the spread of COVID-19 into the town, which has a small emergency medical center but depends on the La Paz and Los Cabos areas for hospitals. Mexico does not have a policy that enforces people to quarantine in place upon arrival. We were having a good season, and here the tourist season starts to go down in the summer, so we lost four months of our good season.”. All former events listed in alphabetical order. Drink and dine away from the chains, and tip well. In the case of Mexico, while it has a decent socialized and solid privatized health care system, both options are limited outside of larger cities and even then so, they are already taxed. Cancún (the country’s most visited international tourist destination besides Mexico City) was the 8th most-searched-for destination from within the U.S. in June, according to Skyscanner. The states that are open, among them the country’s top destinations, as of this publication, are open at 30 percent capacity. Numerous sources estimate the number to be much higher, with wide reports of falsely attributed deaths to pneumonia for lack of testing and in effort to avoid offering financial assistance, per government order, to families who lost someone to the pandemic.