Looking Back Mazatlan Tourist Influx

Looking back Mazatlan tourist influx
Written by Real eStrategy 2 Barometer November 1, 2010 In the past three years, Mazatlán has been able to increase supply in hotel infrastructure, after stagnating in the previous years. In 2010, with cuts to the first half of October, the port was available 9000 168 / 4 in hotel. An increase of 9.6 percent compared with 8 000 362 / 4, 2008 and 3.5 percent against 8 000 859 / 4, 2009. This level of growth is on par with that recorded in other tourist destinations such as Cancun or Acapulco, where growth in the last two years also varies by about 9 percent.

However, the effectiveness has been Mazatlan as a tourist destination by increasing the supply of hotels, has not translated into improved to increase the attraction of visitors who reach the hotel rooms.

In 2010, the average occupancy rate was of 48.6 percent, 3.9 percentage points from 2009, when the average was 52.5 and 9.2 percent from 2008, when hotel occupancy reached 57.8 percent.

The Airport is operated by Grupo Aeroportuario del Norte (OMA), has a deficit of at least $ 500 seats, following the suspension of flights from Mexicana Airlines. Enrique Navarro, administrator of the airline, said it lost 7 000 seats a month out of Mexico and have only covered 5 000 500, even with the expansion of airlines such as VivaAerobus.

OMA recorded in Mazatlan domestic and international passengers in the same proportion. Outsiders, 15 percent comes from Canada and 35 percent of America ... "What we lost was growing, because we will close the year marginally higher levels of 2008 and 2009. By cherishing market with direct routes, we could talk about higher growth rates, from 6.8 to 10 percent, "said Navarro.

He said there are "approaches to national and VivaAerobus airlines, Aeromexico and Volaris, because the idea is to create routes to destinations that are critical for us," he said.