viernes, 18 de marzo de 2011

Mexican Riviera Maya Receive $ 1,300 Million Dollars In Tourism Development in 2011

Riviera Maya will receive 1.300 million dollars in tourism development in 2011



17/03/2011 17:23

Several hotel chains will invest more than 1.300 million dollars (million dollars) this year in building new resorts and golf courses in the Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo.

Dario Flota, director general of the Tourism Promotion Trust, said the Spanish company OHL will begin this year the second phase expansion project in Mayakoba with a golf course.

Also begin construction of a 500-acre resort called Kanaya, which will be used only five acres to build 2,500 rooms in hotel chains such as St. Regis and W hotels, among others, and two golf courses.

In addition, Meliá Hotels opened at the end of year two Paradisus hotels, a resort with 1,000 rooms in Playa del Carmen.

Dario Flota, said he does not have the exact number of investments starting this year, but "only in Maya Koba the amount is close to 1.000 million dollars, and the project amounted to 360 million dollars Kanai.



He insisted that capture this year 3.5 million tourists from the 3 million who arrived last year. (El Universal

Inauguration Resort In San Miguel de Allende

Inauguration resort in San Miguel de Allende


Business - Wednesday, March 16, 2011 (10:59 hrs)


•Emphasize that generate at least 300 jobs

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Mexico , 16 March .- The President Felipe Calderón inaugurated yesterday in this city the hotel and residences Artisan Rosewood, which involved an investment of 250 million of U.S. dollars and will generate 300 jobs directly and thousands indirectly .

The president stressed that this development is to strengthen the city as a world class destination.

This, he said, a beautiful resort, which extends the grounds not only for visiting San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, but in general and the Mexican Bajio.

"This tourist complex is also important for people in San Miguel de Allende, it generated nearly a thousand jobs during construction and will offer permanent jobs and 300 indirect jobs Guanajuato, perhaps, a few thousand more.

The president stressed that this city is a magnet for tourists, for its buildings of great historical value, its church, before cathedral parish, for its vast cultural heritage and especially the warmth and hospitality of its people.

Felipe Calderon said that tourism accounts for 9 percent of gross domestic product of Mexico is the third largest source of foreign exchange, the sector generates about 2.5 million direct jobs and in some communities is the activity that sustains the entire population .

Mexico said today, according to the World Tourism Organization, tourism is the tenth largest in the world. "In 2010 we received 22 million international visitors, not counting the nearly seven million tourist arrivals by cruise ship and not counting the 49 million visitors who crossed the border with Mexico and had a stay of less than one day. That is, a visited country in the year 2010, almost 70, more than 70 million people. "

The goal is to turn Mexico into the fifth most visited country in the world by 2018.

To do so, reported the National Accord was signed by Tourism and consequently, in 2010 was channeled to the sector around four billion pesos, which is three times more than was invested in 2006. This year, the budget increased 22 percent.

"In tourism infrastructure we have invested 15 thousand 250 million pesos, three times as exercised in the past six years thanks to the addition of resources from federal, state and municipal levels in four years has invested in over 435 Guanajuato million in tourism infrastructure, 70 percent more than was spent before, not counting more than one billion invested in the Bicentennial Expo, an expo that had a spill of more than three billion dollars and we hope that soon, soon, we can reopen again, "he said. (With information from Luciano Vázquez / CFE)

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