by Donald Wood
Last updated: 9:35 AM ET, Thu December 14, 2023
The city of Cancun
said it will begin issuing tourist cards to visitors who rent cars later this
month.
Alma Reynoso Zambrano, President of the Quintana
Roo Vehicle Rental Association, explained that the city has reestablished this
tourist card, allowing drivers a free pass for minor driving infractions.
The cards will be digital in scope and distributed to people
renting vehicles in Cancun. A code will be scanned that will identify the name
of the car driver.
That doesn’t mean free reign, however. Tourists will be allowed
two minor driving violations with only a warning from the Benito Juárez Transit
Directorate.
The tourist cards will become effective on December 19. To
date, 10,000 cards have been created and are being given to car rental
agencies.
In November, local authorities announced the
reinstatement of the tourist card for the winter holiday season.
At the time, Zambrano, who chairs the Public Security,
Preventive Police and Traffic Commission, said that the cards would not allow
tourists to bypass more minor driving infractions, but they are meant to deter transit
agent corruption against rental car drivers.
The Tourist Card was initially implemented in 2016 by the
state of Quintana Roo but was eventually phased out before this relaunch.
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