When it comes to tourist information on the Web, Mexico falls short Mexican officials boast that tourism is one of the country's leading sources of income, so it comes as a surprise to see that so many government tourism websites are either obsolete or bereft of content. When I first reviewed tourism websites in 1998, I noted that on-line information about Mexican tourism tends to be a glitzy review of the country's coastal resorts. The Internet is used as a brochure and not a particularly good one. Unfortunately, that reflection still holds true, and if anything, the official websites have only gotten worse. This multilingual site is the most useful of the current stock of official websites, but even so, it doesn't have much substance.
Animation introduces the site, which slows the connection.
Also, it's unclear who runs the site or what its purpose is. On the plus side, there are nice pictures. No doubt this site looks lovely on a CD-Rom, but as a website it's simply too slow to be useful to travelers or investors. While current information is lacking, the site offers an abundance of information that requires surfing the site's search engine. Most useful for researchers, the site has great potential if it is ever updated.