Mexico is face a $1.6 billion fall in tourism incomes for 2009, thanks to a lethal flu eruption, but the drop is lesser than first feared and visitors must go back in 2010, the government supposed on Monday.

Tourism is Mexico’s No. four basis of foreign money behind oil exports, refugee remittances and foreign straight investment, and visitors used up $13.3 billion in 2008 visiting its dirty beaches, regal towns and archeological leftovers.

Other than this year the H1N1 flu outbreak joint with tall drug group killings and a worldwide financial brake to make a poisonous mixture that bleached Mexico-bound flights and caused large wounded in the hospitality industry.

"We’ve never had what we had this year," Tourism Minister Rodolfo Elizondo told a information discussion. "The economic fall, influenza, the drug trafficking issue ... factors that combined to create a difficult year." The fall in tourism profits was fewer drab, though, than early forecasts of approximately $2 billion or yet $4 billion.

Among January and October, Mexico logged foreign profits from tourism of now over $9 billion -- a 17 percent fall compared to the similar stage previous year. Elizondo predict next year’s information recurring to approximately the $13 billion seen previous year.

Mexico, ordered by the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (WTO) as between the world’s peak 10 visitor destinations, saw its global picture destroyed in April and May by an eruption of H1N1 flu that paralyzed Mexico City and upset foreign visitors.

Several foreigners are also frightened by raging battles flanked by competitor drug trafficking gangs and the armed which have killed other than 16,000 people as late 2006. The Mexican government is prognostic a financial reduction of regarding 7 percent this year.