CANCÚN. The Apple Leisure Group hotel chain has restarted with investments of $ 1 billion that had stopped during the pandemic, or three thousand new rooms that will be inaugurated between the fall of this year and the summer of 2022. Alejandro Zozaya, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, told El Sol de México that the areas benefiting from these investments are the Riviera Punta de Mita, in Nayarit, which concentrates two new hotels, while in Quintana Roo, the company will open totally new hotels in Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Cancun, Cozumel, as well as a renovation at Dreams in Puerto Aventura. The company will also have a new hotel in Mazatlán. ➡️ Stay informed on our Google News channel “There is no investment that started during the pandemic that has stopped, but new projects that have a permit and land are waiting for better conditions”. The businessman added that he has four new works on the horizon that have yet to start construction, although they do not have an exact start date or amount of investment. He predicts that passenger traffic to Mexico will recover in 2023, although hotel rates will return to their pre-pandemic level until 2024. Zozaya assured that it was urgent to invest more money in promotion at a time when the global immunization percentage is high and in several countries. are already fighting for this market, while in Mexico investments are minimal. “Public-private coordination to have the same protocols, policies and practices is the next step to stop the consumer being confused. What kills us is that the consumer is confused, they don’t know what the requirements are to go somewhere, where they ask for tests, what if I test positive, that is -to say the lack of coordination so that we all speak the same language is what hurts us. The rules of the game should be unified for all, ”he said. During his participation in the World Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council, which is held in Cancun, Alejandro Zozaya assured that the lack of government support in the sector, prompted businessmen to speed up protection protocols and reactivation. “Ironically, the governments who helped companies a lot during the crisis, who started to inject resources to pay the wage bill, not to pay taxes, however during this period, because it turned out that there had less rush to reactivate, because people started collecting aid, ”he commented. But, he added, in countries where they did not give us help, we had no choice but to get to work immediately and reopen. The sense of urgency is much greater when it costs you more.
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