1. By: Diego Putinati, Chiara Yunes and João Pedro Pinheiro
Cancun Visual Blog
By: Diego Putinati, Chiara Yunes and João Pedro Pinheiro

2. Cancun’s Sketch Map

3. Graph of growth of tourism in Cancun

4. Graph Analysis
As we can all see, this graph isn’t very updated as it goes from 1999 to 2008, but the analysis can be done anyways. In 2008 there were 12,640,000 million people in Cancun’s airport traffic and this was the maximum.. We can see that tourism has been growing for 3 consecutive years and has been growing also in a large scale of growth. The year with the least tourists in Cancun was 1999, with 6,970,000 people.

5. Human Attractions
On the top, there are the Tulum Ruins and at the bottom there is the Castello Chichen Itza.

6. Physical Attractions
On the top, there is the Playa Caracol and on the bottom there is the Playa Tortuga.

7. Physical Attractions
On the top there is the Playa Linda and on the bottom there is the Rio Secreto.

8. Climate Graphs

9. Climate Graphs

10. Cons of tourism
This large-scale growth of coastal tourism and vacation developments increases pressure on fragile ecosystems.
Water pollution has been one of the main impacts of tourism. Hotel industry generates about 95% of total sewage water. which is much more than the capacity of treatment plants operating in the city .
Tourism industry generates large amounts of solid waste that has many impacts on the environment.
The poor water quality has threatened the aquatic ecosystem

11. Pros of Tourism Attracts foreign investments.
Improves the country’s economy.
Makes the government invest in the infrastructure.
More jobs being created for the local population results in a higher standard of living.
Number of economic sectors increasing from primary sectors to services and industries.