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Originally Posted by Crawford
Right. Even now, the average American knows nothing about Mexico City but "huge Mexican city".
Non-Mexicans typically visit Mexico for beaches, rainforests and sun. Mexico City has none of this, and isn't near any of this. There's kind of an urbanite/hipster/foodie recognition of Mexico City, but comparatively niche and recent.
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Agreed for the most part; however, there's also a not-insignificant number of tourists who are drawn to Mexico City and environs for the history and archaeology, which are fairly unique for cities in the Americas.
Anecdotally speaking, Mexico City registers as at or around #2 for gay tourists in Mexico after PV in my experience, and the gay clubs in the city tend to have much larger concentrations of American and Canadian tourists than the average nightlife spot in the tourist-y areas (coincidentally, I'd argue that SP also has a much higher profile in the NA gay community than elsewhere).