Hotel Association Personnel Clean Beaches

by Maureen Dietrich
17 Apr 15
mazmessenger.com

 

Employees of 15 hotels of the Asociación de Hoteles y Empresas Turísticas de Mazatlán hit the beaches yesterday between El Cid and Los Flores hotels to pick up garbage and debris left behind by tourists and locals during the recent holidays.

Under the campaign “Playas Limpias” 70 employees and guests at various hotels combed the sand and empty lots carrying large, black garbage bags.

Salvador Sánchez, General Manager of the El Cid Hotel, said the beaches were not as dirty as they expected but what they did find were some 10,000 cigarette butts. Ever since Coprefis banned smoking (in restaurants and enclosed areas) everyone, he stated, goes to the beach from the hotels to smoke, leaving the beaches looking dirty.

(from Noroeste)

Profeco Sanctions Three Businesses during Holidays

by Maureen Dietrich
7 Apr 15
mazmessenger.com

The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco or consumer protection) reported a total of three violations against consumer protection laws in Mazatlán during the Semana Santa holidays.
Profeco agents visited 315 locations in Sinaloa resulting in 16 violations.

In Mazatlán, of the 39 businesses, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels and transport companies visited 36 were found to comply with regulations.

The three businesses found not in compliance and sanctioned were Cerritos Resort Hotel, Bungalows Mar-Sol and Autotransportes Norte de Sinaloa.

Profeco agents also reported that due to complaints lodged at their booth on the Malecón, a woman selling false tour tickets was detained by authorities.

(from Noroeste)

3 chains announce new hotel plans

Quinta Real in Monterrey: Grupo Real has plans for more.

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Mexico News Daily | Friday, March 27, 2015

   

Hardly a week goes by without an announcement of new hotels in Mexico.

This week it’s Singapore-based Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts, Grupo Real Turismo and Holiday Inn with plans to open 15 new hotels over the next three years at a cost of US $550 million.

 

Banyan Tree expects to complete 10 projects during that time frame, investing $300 million in the luxury and business travel sectors. Some will be new developments, others will be acquisitions, said Abid Butt, general manager of Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts.

One reason Mexico is attractive to the company is that revenues are in dollars and expenditures are in pesos, resulting in higher levels of profitability, he said.

Banyan sees Cancún and Los Cabos as key areas for its future developments. It currently has two properties in Mexico, the Banyan Tree Mayakoba located in the initial phase of a huge tourism and residential project in Playa del Carmen, and the Cabo Marques in Acapulco. Worldwide it owns 37.
Four new hotels are planned by Grupo Real Turismo, three under the brand Real Inn in Santa Fe, Mexico City; Monterrey; and Querétaro. The fourth will be a Camino Real hotel in Tijuana.

All four will represent an investment of $220 million this year and next.

Owned by the Mexican firm Grupo Empresarial Angeles, whose holdings include businesses in the health, financial and communications sectors in addition to tourism, Grupo Real said in a release that it expects Mexico to thrive if it continues to offer the conditions necessary for private firms to grow.
General manager Eduardo Ymay said this week during Tianguis Turístico, the annual tourism conference that was held this year in Acapulco, the firm will be looking for further opportunities for its Real Inn chain, which caters mainly to business travelers.

Grupo Real recorded a 13.5% increase in sales last year, and a 15% increase in earnings. It owns 30 Camino Real hotels, 10 Real Inn properties and another 10 Quinta Real hotels, which are located in tourist destinations.

The third hotel announcement came from InterContinental Hotels Group, which confirmed the construction of a second Holiday Inn in Mazatlán, to be located on the waterfront in the city’s golden zone. Its first hotel in the city is currently under development.

Combined, the two represent an investment of $30-35 million. Company spokesman Octavio Navarro said Mazatlán is looking attractive as a result of an increase in visitors arriving via the new Durango-Mazatlán highway and initiatives undertaken by the Northern Economic Corridor, an economic alliance of eight states.

The company is also looking at new hotels in the cities of Guasave and Los Mochis, also in Sinaloa.

Sources: El Financiero (sp), El Debate (sp)
 

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Holiday Inn to Open Two New Locations in Maz

by Maureen Dietrich
27 Mar 15
mazmessenger.com

At the beginning of this year, InterContinental Hotel Group announced it was beginning construction of a 160-room Holiday Inn Express in La Marina.

On March 25^th at the Tianguis Turístico in Acapulco, the vice president of development and sales for the Group advised the Sinaloa Secretary of Tourism and Governor that they will also build a Holiday Inn Resort of 150 rooms in the Zona Dorada on land facing the ocean.

Total investment for the two hotels amounts to between 30 and 35 million dollars.

(from Sectur press release)