Organización espacial del turismo de cruceros en México

Abstract

The cruise industry in Mexico has had significant changes stemming from current global trends during the last two decades. This has been due to its favorable and strategic geographical position in the market, its warm climate and proximity to the United States. Hence there has been a major relevance towards adopting national tourism policies as well as reforming the national port system allowing the entrance of private investment infrastructure, cruise terminal management and operation. The spatial organization of cruise tourism destination ports in Mexico has been redefined in this context. That is to say, there are new home ports, new routes and ports of call that have placed the country as a world’s leading destination for cruise ship arrivals. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the conditions which have led the spatio-temporal dynamics into a critical review of the new regional geography of cruise tourism in Mexico.