Most visited Latin American countries 2023

Mexico was the most visited destination by international tourists in Latin America in 2023, surpassing 42 million tourist arrivals in that year. In the second place, but far behind, was the Dominican Republic. A global tourism powerhouseBy developing airport infrastructure and calibrating new direct flights, Mexico has set international tourism high on its priorities list. At the forefront of Mexico's spike in international tourism is the FONATUR, or Mexico's National Fund for Tourism Development. The tourism body worked in the expansion of Cancun's airport and other four key tourist airports in the country. Plus, Mexico City's airport added new international direct flights in the 2010s, resulting in being rated as the best internationally connected airport in Latin America in 2019. With this and other developments in this sector, the North American country managed to rank among the top 20 destinations in the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Ranking that year. South America's tourism leaderThrough its geographically diverse landscape and globally recognized wine industry, Argentina has grown its international tourism sector. The influx of foreign visitors to Argentina can in some way be attributed to the country's air-travel infrastructure. The national air carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas, was one of the top airline operating in Latin America in 2019. That same year, passenger traffic to Argentinian airports grew by four percent. Though in April 2020, in the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the arrival of international air travel tourists to Argentina came to a complete halt, ensuing a similar fate of the global tourism industry.

2023年，墨西哥成为拉丁美洲国际游客访问量最多的目的地，当年接待游客数量超过4200万人次。位居第二，但与墨西哥相去甚远的是多米尼加共和国。作为全球旅游业的强大动力，墨西哥通过发展机场基础设施和调整新的直飞航班，将国际旅游业置于其优先事项的首位。墨西哥国际旅游量的激增主要得益于墨西哥国家旅游业发展基金（FONATUR）的推动。该旅游机构致力于扩展坎昆机场及其他国家四个主要旅游目的地的机场。此外，墨西哥城机场在2010年代新增了多条国际直飞航线，并于2019年被评为拉丁美洲最佳国际连接机场。凭借这些及其他领域的进步，北美国家当年成功跻身旅游与旅游竞争力排名的前二十位。南美洲的旅游领导者阿根廷，凭借其地理景观的多样性和全球知名的葡萄酒产业，推动了国际旅游业的增长。阿根廷国际游客的增长在一定程度上可归因于该国航空运输基础设施的完善。阿根廷国家航空公司（Aerolineas Argentinas）在2019年是拉丁美洲运营的顶级航空公司之一。同年，阿根廷机场的旅客吞吐量增长了4%。然而，在2020年4月COVID-19大流行的爆发中，国际航空旅游游客抵达阿根廷的活动完全停滞，全球旅游业亦遭受了相似的命运。