If you’re planning to mark the end of the world with a trip to Mexico in 2012, I’d suggest making reservations now! The end of the world is making for big business south of the border with an estimated 52 million tourists expected to visit Mexico next year. Part of the influx of tourists is attributed to Mexican President Felipe Calderon's tourism campaign: "Mundo Maya 2012" (Mayan World 2012).
A few days ago, I mentioned Tapachula, the Mexican town on the border with Guatemala that started a countdown to Doomsday clock on December 21. It is expected to attract many visitors interested in, well, yes, the clock, but also local Mayan monuments.
The tourism board at Cancun and Playa del Carmen says that regardless of a person’s beliefs regarding the end of the world, “…come and be part off a very historic experience.”
If the world does blow up, won’t that be historic as hell?
Seriously, Cancun and Playa del Carmen offer great tourist sites including the Tulum, Palenque and Chichen ruins. In addition, resort visitors are being invited to place photos and messages in time capsules that will be opened in 2062. Write clearly, please, we have no idea what or how people will communicate in half a century. Some schools have already abandoned cursive writing as a subject.
The good folks at Cancun and Playa del Carmen suggest, however, if you plan to go there, make reservations soon.
Whether or not it will be ready for Doomsday, the Mexican government is building a tourist hotel at the Calakmul reserve in Campeche to accommodate visitors to the Calakmul archaeological site which was a prevailing Mayan city and now is a popular tourist destination.
Also just in time for Doomsday, the Yucatan government in June plans to open its $30 million Maya museum in Merida that will house 750,000 Mayan artifacts.
And finally, CNN Global reports that the good people at Xunantunich, an historical stone site in the Cayo District of Belize, will hold a festival and concert inside the Xunantunich ruins. A highlight of the event will be a “torch run,” featuring torches arriving from four directions to “usher in the next 5,125 years.”
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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