Riviera Maya, Q.R. — The Secretary of Tourism and 60 ambassadors spent the weekend traveling the full Tren Maya circuit to promote it. The trip was made over the weekend to help promote the passenger train as a travel option in other countries.
Josefina Rodríguez Zamora, the Secretary of Tourism of the Government of Mexico said during the trip, diplomatic corps had the opportunity to learn in detail about the Maya Train as well as the strategies, instruments and promotional actions.
Rodríguez Zamora was accompanied by more than 60 ambassadors who toured the Maya Train, where she encouraged them to join in promoting tourism in their countries of representation.
She emphasized that with this, the Tren Maya, takes new steps toward consolidating itself as an act of historic justice for the Mayan Indigenous Peoples and a tourism integration for the communities of southeastern Mexico.
“When we invite you to tour the Maya Train and its surroundings, it’s to share a vision: that of a country committed to the south-southeast, honoring its history and building a shared future. We ask you to take this message to the nations where you represent Mexico, a country that has transformed its heritage into opportunities, with responsibility and sustainability,” she said.
“Ambassadors, representatives of Mexico, the Mayan World is not a postcard from the past but a door to the present and a better future. Each station and each attraction of the Mayan Train is an entrance to ancient wisdom, to the richest biodiversity, and an embrace to the communities that open their hearts to us,” she promoted to the ambassadors.
She was accompanied by Raquel Serur Smeke, Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General of the National Institute of Anthropology and History and Joaquín Díaz Mena, Governor of Yucatán.
Rodríguez Zamora explained that the Maya Train is supported by a network of services that strengthen it, create jobs, protect the natural environment and celebrates the living culture of Mexico’s Indigenous Peoples. Among these services, she highlighted the seven hotels managed by the Olmeca-Maya-Mexica Airport, Railway, and Auxiliary and Related Services Group.
She explained that with more than 1,500 kilometers of railway, the project connects Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo through 34 stations, 21 municipalities, and more than 40 archaeological sites.
She detailed that since December 2023, the Maya Train has transported more than 1.1 million passengers, with a 171 percent increase in tickets sold in April 2025, compared to the same month in 2024.
She expressed her gratitude for the commitment and collaborative work carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente, as well as the administration of the Maya Train, headed by Director General Óscar Lozano Águila.
This tour was attended by Clemens von Goetze from the German Embassy, María Gabriela Quinteros from Argentina, Rachel Elizabeth Moseley from Australia, Elisabeth Kehrer from Austria, Gunay Muradova from Azerbaijan, Abdullah Al Forhad from Bangladesh, Wouter Poels from Belgium, Oscar Arnold from Belize, José Vladimir Crespo Fernández from Bolivia and Nedilson Ricardo Jorge from Brazil.
Cameron Dean Mackay from Canada, Sebastián Jaime Labra Grez from Chile, Zhu Jian from China, Pablo Heriberto Abarca Mora from Costa Rica, Djerou Robert Ly from Ivory Coast, Nelson Ocaña from Cuba, Kim Højlund Christensen from Denmark, Rosa Delmy Cañas Orellana from El Salvador and Salem Rashed Salem Alowais from the United Arab Emirates.
María Salcedo from Spain, Justen Thomas from the United States, Lilybeth R. Deapera from the Philippines, of France, Delphine Marie Michele Nicole Borione, of Guatemala, Edgar Armando Gutiérrez Girón, of Haiti, Hubbert Labbé and of Honduras, Sonia Leticia Cruz Lozano.
From Hungary was Zoltán Németh, of India, Pankaj Sharma, of Indonesia, Bimo Ariawan, of Iran, Fattah Ahmadi, of Iraq, Hayder Falhi Hussein Al-Battat, of Ireland, Aisling McCaauley, of Israel, Einat Kranz Neiger and of Italy, Alessandro Modiano.
From Jamaica, Julia Elizabeth Hyatt, of Japan, Kozo Honsei, of Jordan, Adli Qasem Mohammad Alkhaledi, of Kuwait, Salah Say Alhaddad, of Lebanon, Sami Nmeir, of Malaysia, Jamal Sharifuddin bin Johan, of Morocco, Abdelfattah Lebbar, of Nicaragua, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Madrigal and from Nigeria, Eunice Garos Philips-Umezurike.
From Norway, Ragnhild Imerslund, from the Netherlands, Joris Mansour, from Pakistan, Shozab Abbas, from Palestine, Nadya RH Rasheed, from Panama, Abraham Martínez Montilla, from Paraguay, Gloria Yrma Amarilla Acosta, from Poland, Agnieszka Frydrychowicz-Tekieli, from Portugal, Manuel Maria Camacho Cansado Carvalho, from Qatar, Hamad Khalid AM Al-Malik and from the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mujtar Leboihi Emboiric.
From the United Kingdom, Susannah Goshko, from Russia, Nikolay Sofinskiy, from South Africa, Beryl Rose Sisulu, from Sweden, Gunnar Aldén, from Switzerland, Yves Dominique Reymond, from Türkiye, Murat Salim Esenli, from Ukraine, Oksana Dramaretska, from the European Union, Francisco Goncalo Nunes André, from Uruguay, Santiago Wins Arnábal, from Venezuela, Stella Marina Lugo de Montilla, and from Vietnam, Nguyen Van Hai.
