BanderasNews
Puerto Vallarta Weather Report
Welcome to Puerto Vallarta's liveliest website!
Contact UsSearch
Why Vallarta?Vallarta WeddingsRestaurantsWeatherPhoto GalleriesToday's EventsMaps
 NEWS/HOME
 EDITORIALS
 ENTERTAINMENT
 VALLARTA LIVING
 PV REAL ESTATE
 TRAVEL / OUTDOORS
 HEALTH / BEAUTY
 SPORTS
 THE RAP
 LOCAL SPORT REPORT
 THE AMERICAS REPORT
 DAZED & CONFUSED
 PHOTOGRAPHY
 READERS CORNER
 BANDERAS NEWS TEAM
Sign up NOW!

Free Newsletter!
Puerto Vallarta News NetworkSports 

AMLO Considers Bringing NASCAR Racing to Mexico

April 23, 2019

Instead of hosting one Formula 1 race, we may have fifteen or twenty NASCAR races, which are very popular in the United States," Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marques, said.

Mexico City - NASCAR may be making its way south of the border to Mexico, according to Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marques.

Torruco announced that, instead of Formula 1, the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is considering bringing NASCAR races to Mexico as they are self-financing and don't require government resources.

"Formula 1 does not have American champions so it has greater visibility in Europe, which is where their 'roosters' are. So, instead of hosting one Formula 1 race, we may have 15 or 20 NASCAR races, which are very popular in the United States," Torruco said.

"You have to remove inertias and see how to organize other events. I have spoken with the NASCAR coordinators and these races will have all the support they need. Why? Because they do it in a self-financing way," he added.

During Tianguis Turistico 2019, Torruco held a meeting with the National Association of Tour Operators of Mexico (ANTM), in which he stressed that individual states should diversify their tourism attractions with events like NASCAR races to draw new visitors and garner the interest of not only national tourists, but those from countries that generally visit Mexico, like the United States.

With NASCAR races, Torruco believes that Mexico could reroute tourists to other areas of the country since at the end of 2018, 80% of the 41,500,000 tourists that vacationed in Mexico visited only five destinations: Cancun, Mexico City, Playa del Carmen, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta.

Sources: ReporturTravel Pulse