墨西哥是一种长期流行的旅行美国人的目的地，但在四年后成为焦点被绑架周末在塔毛利帕斯被枪指着。两人被杀，剩下的两人回到了美国。
美国汽车协会据报告的与去年相比，国际旅游增长了30%，坎昆、里维埃拉玛雅和墨西哥城被列为首选春假目的地。
在这张2022年10月1日资料照片中，旅客们出现在墨西哥巴亚尔塔港的古斯塔沃·迪亚斯·奥尔达斯国际机场(PVR)。
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一位接近调查的消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，调查人员认为枪手错误地认为被绑架的美国人是墨西哥一个被归类为“不要旅行”的地区的人口贩子。
国务院已经先前发布的墨西哥部分地区六次四级“请勿旅行”警告。
“塔毛利帕斯州的旅游忠告保持在第四级——不要旅行。我们鼓励美国人听从这个建议，”美国国务院发言人奈德·普莱斯(Ned Price)周二表示。
除了塔毛利帕斯州，国务院还对科利马州、格雷罗州、米却肯州、锡那罗亚州和萨卡特卡斯州发出了“不要旅行”的警告。朝鲜和阿富汗等地也发布了四级旅游警告。
最受欢迎的墨西哥旅游目的地被美国国务院评为二级，建议游客“提高警惕”这与法国、德国、英国和其他十几个国家的评级相同。
坎昆的暴力事件引发了2021年的头条新闻，此前在受欢迎的海滩附近发生了多起枪击事件，包括敌对帮派在海滩上的枪战，导致游客躲在沙滩椅后面。
墨西哥已经派遣了数百名国民警卫队队员在大西洋海岸巡逻。
专家提示出国旅游注意安全
“今年1月，即2023年1月，美国和墨西哥之间的客运量实际上比2019年同月增长了24%，”斯科特廉价航班的创始人斯科特·凯斯告诉“早安美国”。
“你不会看到坎昆或Cabo等地的价格大幅上涨，因为航空公司看到了需求的增长，并通过增加运力、增加航班和更大的飞机做出了回应。"
与所有国际旅行一样，专家建议避免携带大量金钱或所有重要文件旅行，只乘坐可信的出租车，并远离任何可能发现毒品销售的地方。
凯斯说:“重要的是要保持正确的观点，只要你再次采取了那些标准的常识性预防措施，你就可以在大多数地区旅行，你会感到安全和有保障。”
What to know about traveling to Mexico after 4 Americans were kidnapped
Mexicois a longstanding populartraveldestination for Americans, but is in the spotlight after four werekidnappedat gunpoint in Tamaulipas over the weekend. Two were killed, while the remaining two are back in the U.S.
AAAreportedthat international travel is up 30% as compared to last year, and Cancun, Riviera Maya and Mexico City are listed as top spring break destinations.
A source close to the investigation told ABC News that investigators believe the gunmen wrongly believed the kidnapped Americans were rival human traffickers who were in an area of Mexico categorized as “do not travel.”
The State Department hadpreviously issuedsix level four “do not travel” warnings to parts of Mexico.
“The travel advisory for Tamaulipas state remains at level four -- do not travel. We encourage Americans to heed that advice,” Ned Price, a spokesperson for the State Department, said on Tuesday.
Along with Tamaulipas, the State Department as “do not travel” warnings for Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa and Zacatecas. Level four travel warnings are also instituted in places such as North Korea and Afghanistan.
The most popular Mexican tourist destinations have been rated a level two by the State Department, where travelers are advised to “exercise increased caution.” This is the same rating given to France, Germany, the U.K. and a dozen other countries.
Violence in Cancun sparked headlines in 2021 after multiple shootings took place near popular beaches, including a shootout at a beach between rival gangs, which left tourists hiding behind beach chairs.
Mexico has since dispatched hundreds of national guardsmen to patrol beaches along its Atlantic coast.
Expert tips to stay safe when traveling abroad
“Passenger volume between the U.S. and Mexico this January, January 2023 actually up 24% compared to the same month in 2019,” Scott Keyes, the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, told “Good Morning America.”
“You're not seeing a huge increase in prices to places like Cancun or Cabo becauseairlinessee that rise in demand and have responded by adding capacity, adding flights to the schedule, larger planes.”
As with all international travel, experts advise avoiding traveling with large sums of money or all of your important documents, using trusted taxis only and staying clear of anywhere you might find drugs being sold.
“It's important to keep it in perspective, most areas that you can be traveling in and that you can feel safe and secure as long as, again, you're taking those sort of standard common sense precautions,” said Keyes.
