Just wanted to clarify this point especially after it came up over on the thread about the new pier, starting more or less
here.
As stated there, the president of the larger of the 2 hotel associations here continues to voice his opposition to the home port project, a big one to bring in cruise ships south of town somewhere around Xcaret or whatever. (The details are out there, just not my focus here.) Recently, however, the president of the small hotel association, Lenin Amaro, reversed his position and announced that this project should be approved. I talked to one person prominent in regional politics here who gave the immediate reaction "I wonder how much they paid him."
Be that as it may, it seems important to point out that in this respect, the president of the small hotel association is
not, as one article on the topic stated in its headline, speaking for
hoteleros here, who by and large do
not support this project. Indeed he is not even speaking for the small hotel association of which he is the president, as there has been no discussion of any such view within the association, and several of its other members, when we informed them of Amaro's comments this morning, expressed serious concern that Amaro should have said such a thing.
For our part, we have just pulled out of the small hotel association.
FWIW!
Steve