a question

"But we don't just have a 4-month tourist season. That 4 months you refer to that is simply one of our tourist seasons. We also have a 2-month summer tourist season, and pretty much year round weekend tourism. Most of our business actually has little to nothing to do with foreign tourist season. More money is typically spent here in the 4 weeks comprising Xmas/NY and Semana Santa/Semana de Pascua than during the 4 months foreign tourists are here."

Really? Is it true that more money is spent by National tourists during the Xmas/NY and Samana Santa holidays than any other time of the year? I'm not doubting you. Just wondering if it is really true. From what I've seen in my years here, the busloads of tourists don't spend much dinero when they're here. If so, who is spending all of that money, and where, during the 4 holiday weeks you are referring to. Am I totally missing another class of National tourist that is not visible to me here in Zihua during the holidays?

I've reviewed the data a number of times over the past 15 years or so, though at the moment I don't really feel like downloading and poring through Sectur's most recent stats (you're certainly welcome to do so in the DataTur section of their website). The sheer number of national tourists overwhelms the numbers of foreigners. Last year 5,427,351 Mexicans visited Guerrero, while during the same period only 207,710 foreigners did, so for foreigners to spend more than Mexicans each foreigner would have to spend each day about the same amount as 26 Mexicans. It just ain't happening.