Tijuana on Monday launched a campaign to attract visitors from the neighboring US city of San Diego, despite spiralling drug violence in the Mexican border town that last year claimed 843 lives.
Tijuana on Monday launched a campaign to attract visitors from the neighboring US city of San Diego, despite spiralling drug violence in the Mexican border town that last year claimed 843 lives.
To mark Tijuana's 120th anniversary, the Mexico's tourist office in San Diego unveiled its "120 Things To Do in Tijuana" campaign, hoping to end a downward trend in US tourism to the city and the Baja California region.
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But the Mexican city also has become a major trafficking node for cocaine and other hard drugs, and a veritable battlefield in the drug cartels' turf wars.
The violence appears to have scared off American travellers. For example, visitors to a popular whale-watching lagoon at Guerrero Negro, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of Tijuana, dropped by 25 percent last year as compared to 2007.
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The violence prompted the US State Department in February to issue a travel advisory cautioning American college students planning to take their annual spring break vacations in Mexico's border territories.
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