MND Local: Why high-value tourism is down, not just in Los Cabos, but across Mexico’s top beach resort destinations

MND Local: Why high-value tourism is down, not just in Los Cabos, but across Mexico’s top beach resort destinations

In May, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported that tourism had increased in the country by 11.9% in March. This despite the high-profile death of CJNG cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes during a Feb. 22 military operation in Jalisco, an event that set off a firestorm of retaliatory blockades, car burnings and other arson attacks; images that were widely disseminated in the U.S. The figures mad…