Mexico Might Be On the Upswing as News Steers People Away from Dominican Republic
byDaniel McCarthy/
Heather Di Pietro, of North Carolina’s TravelSales Group, has been selling Mexico for 14 years — as long as she has been in travel.
她说:“这是我发现并成为专家的第一个目的地。”
墨西哥是北美旅行的长期坚定者,是她建立代理商的方式。但是,在过去的一年左右的时间里,她到墨西哥的生意有所减弱,“人们要求'以外的任何东西'”她说。但是,这种趋势自此以另一个大目的地 - 多米尼加共和国为代价而逆转。
“We have definitely seen a slight swing in clients revisiting Mexico as an option. We have even had a few clients who booked months ago stating ‘anywhere but Mexico’ during the booking process, that have now switched their vacation to Cancun,” she said.
“确实,这是可悲的,我们知道这两个目的地都很美丽,并为我们的客户提供了惊人而安全的beplay银行卡度假体验。”
每年有超过250万美国人前往多米尼加共和国,其中大多数都没有发生任何事件。在过去的几个月中,新闻报道袭击了多米尼加共和国,因为奇怪的疾病,美国人在岛上垂死的头条新闻,就像墨西哥在2017年和2018年因污染酒精和旅游死亡的头条新闻袭击。
Now agents like Di Pietro are saying that clients who had long since disregarded Mexico are starting to come back around because of the Dominican Republic’s problems. Statistics from Travel Market Report’s upcoming 2019 Outlook on Mexico, which will be released next month, show the same: 51% of the over 800 agents surveyed said that clients who don’t want to visit the Dominican Republic because of the reports are now considering Mexico instead.
“现在,蓬塔卡纳和多米尼加共和国的情况肯定使墨西哥再次成为领先者。现在,有了所有多米尼加共和国的东西,我将墨西哥推更多。beplay客服“由于博士的事物,我要去墨西哥的预订更高,但这不是您想要的方式。”
德克萨斯州奥斯丁天堂度假的旅行顾问米歇尔·布泽克(Michelle Bouzek)已经出售墨西哥已有11年了,他已经看到了同样的事,并告诉旅行市场报告,她对从可能不会没有的客户出发前往墨西哥有兴趣beplay客服由于最近的新闻报道,想去墨西哥。
为了蒂尔顿(Tilton)的缘故,即使她的成功(她是克鲁斯计划者的百万富翁俱乐部的一员),尽管多米尼加共和国的客人有所提高,但现在出售墨西哥仍然是一个挑战。这不是因为实际发生的事情或该国如何发展为目的地。相反,事故似乎是从头条新闻出现的,这是多米尼加共和国现在正在发生的事情。
“Every time something happens in the media, it just sets us back ten steps,” she said. “What I keep pushing is the sensationalism that the news people do.”
What Tilton does to stay successful is educate her clients about the risks for any destination, first by getting the client to voice his or her fears. Next she tries to put the destination in perspective.
“When I asked people why they don’t want to go to Mexico, they don’t know what to say. They don’t even know. They don’t even have a legit reason. It’s crazy,” she said. “I pull out our statistics and say, ‘Here’s my spiel – I’m not going to push you to go to Mexico and I’m not going to push you to go the DR. I say we just had a mass shooting here in California and then one in Ohio, and how is it not any safer to go to Mexico or the DR?’”
对于蒂尔顿来说,它一直在工作。“我刚刚结束了另一场80名乘客的墨西哥婚礼,该婚礼毫无争议。我爱墨西哥,我认为墨西哥很棒。”
Travel Market Report’s 2019 Outlook on Mexico, which is sponsored by Apple Leisure Group, will be released early next month. More details to follow.