Mexico: Countdown to End of World in Tapachula

By Larry Habegger and Andrew Davis | Permalink | No Comments | December 17th, 2011 | Trackback

Not all news is bad news for Mexico. Tourism officials in Tapachula installed a clock to countdown to Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the Mayan calendar “runs out,” or as some have hypothesized, the day the world was supposed to end. While Tapachula is a small town not particularly famous for Mayan ruins, nearby Izapa is a site rich with archaeological treasures. Tourism officials hope that interest in the Mayan calendar—which most experts agree simply marks the beginning of a new Mayan “cycle,” rather than the end of the world—will increase tourism to the town, state and country at a time when Mexico’s tourist industry has suffered.

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