Hotel Association Personnel Clean Beaches

by Maureen Dietrich
17 Apr 15
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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)

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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City Considers Allowing Beach Camping during Semana Santa

by staff
10 Mar 15
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Beaches where camping would be allowed would be those in the less densely populated area of northern Mazatlán.

Mazatlán Mayor Carlos Felton announced yesterday that during Semana Santa if it is necessary the municipality will allow sleeping on the beach for those who cannot find hotel rooms due to the high demand.

Mayor Felton told reporters at a press conference on Monday the municipality must take action so that no one decides not to come to Mazatlán, adding the municipality could supply drinking water and portable bathrooms (for those camping on the beach).

The municipality could supply drinking water and portable bathrooms (for those camping on the beach).

Beaches where camping would be allowed would be those in the less densely populated area of northern Mazatlán, not those in front of hotels or the Malecón, stated Felton.

Still on the topic of Semana Santa the director of Cultura, Raúl Rico González, announced for the second consecutive year Cultura is preparing the Bandódromo for April 2, 3 and 4 in Olas Altas.

The idea behind the music spectacular, costing approximately one million pesos, is to avoid the concentration of Semana Santa vacationists in the Zona Dorada where historically the numbers have caused traffic congestion and road closures.

The director commented he hoped the Bandódromo would work as well as it did last year when it attracted around 70,000 people into Olas Altas to enjoy the music.

(from Noroeste)

Semana Santa Hotel Reservations at 90 Percent

by Maureen Dietrich
4 Mar 15
mazmessenger.com

According to Sinaloa Secretary of Tourism, Francisco Córdova Celaya, hotel reservations for this year’s Semana Santa and Semana Pascua holidays beginning March 30 is already at 90 percent occupancy rate.

He calculated if the cost of renting a room is 2,000 pesos and if hotels are at 100 percent occupation for the 12 days, that equates to 120,000 hotel nights or 400 million pesos income from hotels alone.
The Secretary added there are no rooms available for the holidays in Mazatlán and they are looking for alternatives, possibly in Stone Island, and talking with condominiums and hotels outside the city to make rooms available.

(from Noroeste)

Motel 6 announces southward move

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Artist's rendering of the new Hotel 6 brand.G6 HOSPITALITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico News Daily | Thursday, December 11, 2014

The operator of the Motel 6 chain, which has more than 1,200 Motel 6 and Studio 6 locations in the United States and Canada, is expanding into Mexico.

G6 Hospitality said yesterday it will open two new brands, Hotel 6 and Estudio 6, as it begins a move into Latin America, beginning with Mexico.

A subsidiary of the property developer Promodesa Comercial, called Latina Promohoteles, has signed an agreement with G6 Hospitality to open 30 newly-built properties by the end of 2017 in major cities in Mexico. The first will be in Salamanca, Guanajuato, opening late next year.

Company executive Guillermo Estrada said “there is a lot of brand awareness in Mexico for the Motel 6 brand.” The new hotels will retain the same basic logo featuring the number 6.

Chief executive Jim Amorosia said there is strong recognition of the 6 and what it represents. “Is it a Kobe steak? No. But we advertise to satisfy a consistent appetite. Our goal is always to be the McDonald’s of the hotel industry.”

The new hotels will be built in the north, in major markets such as Mexico City and Monterrey and in resort regions.

G6 Hospitality has opened more than 110 new locations in the U.S. and Canada this year alone.

Source: Hotel News Now (en)

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Fibra Inn announces 15 new hotels

Fibra's Casa Grande in Delicias, Chihuahua.FIBRA INN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico News Daily | Thursday, October 23, 2014

The hotel group Fibra Inn announced today it will invest 2.5 billion pesos in new properties next year, expanding its operations in various cities in Mexico.

The Mexican real estate investment trust plans to increase the number of its hotels to about 45, said director Víctor Zorrilla Vargas, after closing the year with 30. The firm will be looking at Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. In the latter city Fibra is already studying the possibility of either acquisitions or new developments.

Yesterday, Fibra announced the sale of new certificates, similar to shares, worth 4 billion pesos, to finance a multi-year expansion plan that will boost the total number of its properties to 60.

Fibra’s principal market is the business traveler. It has franchise and licensing contracts with several global hotel brands.

Source: CNNExpansion (sp)

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First Hotel for Playa Espíritu to Open in December

 by Maureen Dietrich

21 Aug 14  

mazmessenger.com

 

In December this year, the first hotel for the mega tourism development Centro Integralmente Planeado (CIP) Playa Espíritu in Teacapán will open its doors, said Eduardo Bazúa Hernández, Fonatur delegate.

The 53 room hotel, which began construction two months ago, is an “express” style hotel with a restaurant, pool, gymnasium and meeting rooms.

Bazúa Hernández advised that as well as the hotel construction, they are working on roads and the introduction of services in the area and expect to spend 431 million pesos on the project this year.

Fonatur has donated land to the CFE to build a substation and is negotiating with Conaqua to connect an aquaduct to the Chilillos canal for water once the Santa María dam is built, he said.

CIP Projects for 2015 include selling lots, constructing a new road to connect to the Mazatlán-Tepic highway and the modernization of the Teacapán airport. 

(from Noroeste)