- Title: Tourists dip their toes in water as top Mexican beach getaway reopens
- Date: 13th June 2020
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MEXICAN TOURISM INDUSTRY WORKER, MIGUEL MANZANILLA, SAYING: "It's good to know that right now they're restarting jobs and that tourists will come and that everything here in the hotel sector of Cancun is reopening. And we send a general invitation to all the national and international tourists that they are welcome. This is a paradise that many people know and they should come back and enjoy the Caribbean once again." PERSON SITTING AT BAR EMPTY STREET TOURISTS WALKING DOWN STREET
- Embargoed: 27th June 2020 23:42
- Keywords: Cancun Mexico business cases coronavirus industry pandemic reopening restrictions tourism
- Location: CANCUN, MEXICO
- City: CANCUN, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA003CI7DBUV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Foreign visitors have begun to trickle back to the white sands and warm waters of Mexico's Caribbean coast as its popular beaches gradually reopen to tourism with new sanitary measures in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
A few tourists splashed in the ocean and laid out on the soft sand outside Cancun resorts on Friday (June 12).
Most seemed determined to have a good time, even as Mexico reported record infection levels in recent days and in certain areas is at the peak of the pandemic. Mexico has registered 16,448 overall deaths.
Although hotels can allow guests into the water, public beaches remain closed.
A full recovery for Mexico's tourism sector - which represents 8.7% of gross domestic product and employs 4.5 million people - looks far off.
Mexico registered only 86,000 foreign visitors in April, down from 2.8 million the same month the year before, according to official data
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