Monthly Passenger Traffic on the Mexican Caribbean
Cozumel is the world’s most popular cruise ship destination. In 2019, the island welcomed in excess of 4.5 million passengers. With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, the cruise industry ran hard aground in mid-March of last year putting total registered cruise arrivals of passengers to Cozumel at only 1.1 million in 2020, a 75% YoY decrease.
In the case of air travel, passenger traffic to and from vacation destinations such as Cancun rebounded in the second half of the year (in December 2020, CUN airport utilization stood 36% below its level a year earlier). For cruise ship ports, however, the crisis continues unabated, with not a single ship mooring to docks on the Mexican Caribbean over the last 10 months.