Mazatlan Mexico Tourism Slows The Global Crisis

Mazatlán tourism slows the global crisis
Written by Real eStrategy 7 Tourist Market, News, Hospitality Industry November 10, 2010 In the past six years, Mazatlán has been the place that has attracted tourism investment in Sinaloa, with the relaunch of the Marina Mazatlan, the boom in real estate development and the confidence generated for the installation of new hotels. However, the global financial crisis, which exploded in September 2008, had its impact one year later, when investors decided to remain cautious and wait for better times to promote the projects that were in the pipeline. Besides this, the crisis in the airline industry also slowed the launch of Mazatlan, since not only lost flight after departure of the airline market as Alma de Mexico, or the suspension of routes such as Delta or Continental, but efforts were not sufficient to replenish the losses.

Today, Mazatlan has managed to increase the supply of housing sites with the opening of more hotel rooms. However, it does not offer enough space tourists to take them to this destination by air ... In this administration, tourism investment has reached significant numbers, up more than 5 billion pesos a year, with tourism products such as Marina Mazatlan, Estrella de Mar, condominium towers and hotels like Riu and Crowne Plaza. However, it still has weaknesses, such as alerts that have been issued for not coming to Sinaloa in the international market like the United States and Canada, as a result of the violence that was recorded in the state.

"Since the last pandemic, violence or not we want this forever and grow uncontrollably over the media and the lack of flights we are taking from all competition, speaking of Mazatlan," said the entrepreneur Ernesto Coppel Kelly.

In the past six years, tourism in Sinaloa has allowed a growth of over 50 percent in tourist arrivals, said Secretary of Tourism in the state, Francisco de la Vega Aragón ... who said that currently, tourism 11.6 percent of gross domestic product in the state ... "In the period 2005 to 2010, but especially in the last three years, private enterprise has invested a cumulative total of more than 19 billion pesos in the construction of hotels, condominiums, marinas, golf courses, restaurants, shopping malls and other tourist facilities, "he added.

Berdegué Carlos Sacristán, vice president of the Association of Hotels and Tourism Companies of Mazatlan, said that demand, Mazatlan is well, just no way to bring visitors to the limitations you have in the air connectivity.

The hotelier, which owns the Pueblo Bonito hotel chain, Ernesto Coppel Kelly, warned that the lack of air connectivity is a limiting factor to Mazatlan can pick up, out of the crisis that is now and compete against other destinations country.

Numeralia: Share of tourism in the state GDP 11.9%. Loss recorded in hotel occupancy -9.23%. Millions of tourist investment in the six years captured $ 19.000. Direct and indirect jobs generated by tourism 80.000. Visitors expected in the state this year 3'000, 000.

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