home port project NOT supported by hotels

**ryberg** · 02-17-2005

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

Jimmy-James · 03-02-2005

Hey Steve,
I just came accross this blurb on the home port project that I thought you and the others may find interesting-

Home Port project going ahead, says Xcaret president

By Diario Financiero
10 February 2005
Corporate Mexico

The business group Xcaret assured that this year it will build the Home Port, a dock designed for cruise ships, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, in which it will invest US$80 million. Francisco Córdoba Lira, executive director of Xcaret, stated in a press conference that 2004 was an "extraordinary year" for the group, as its income grew 28% year-on-year to 1.3 billion pesos (US$117 million). He explained that with its various tourist projects, profits were up 53% year-on-year and it hired 4% more staff. Córdoba Lira stated that the delay in defining the future of the Home Port project was due to political issues, as the municipal president Gabriel Mandicut refused to give the group the go-ahead and hotel firms were strongly against the project. Nevertheless, the insider expressed his confidence that works would be started this year, especially considering the boom in cruise ship activities.

**ryberg** · 03-02-2005

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Francisco Córdoba Lira, executive director of Xcaret, stated in a press conference that 2004 was an "extraordinary year" for the group, as its income grew 28% year-on-year to 1.3 billion pesos (US$117 million). He explained that with its various tourist projects, profits were up 53% year-on-year and it hired 4% more staff.

Anybody else find that last number surprisingly low, given all the admittedly "extraordinary" numbers leading up to it?

Quote:

Córdoba Lira stated that the delay in defining the future of the Home Port project was due to political issues, as the municipal president Gabriel Mandicut refused to give the group the go-ahead and hotel firms were strongly against the project. Nevertheless, the insider expressed his confidence that works would be started this year, especially considering the boom in cruise ship activities.

Well of couse he did -- it's his business! I like that -- "political issues" -- as if to say that we all know that political issues are just useless wastes of time or something.

Steve

MWC · 03-02-2005

Truly stupid question, but is the business group Xcaret also affiliated with the ecopark? Maybe some sort of boycott should be implemented. The last thing this area needs to do is encourage more of a boom in cruise ship activities.

Jimmy-James · 03-02-2005

Well, I won't be going to Xcaret anytime soon.

KevKaos · 03-07-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimmy-James

Well, I won't be going to Xcaret anytime soon.

Had thought of doing a trip to Xcaret in Aug, but that is now scratched.

02-17-2005	#1 (permalink)
ryberg playa maya guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: wandering between the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1961 and the Plugged Nickel, Chicago, 1965 Posts: 9,540	home port project NOT supported by hotels 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

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03-02-2005	#2 (permalink)
Jimmy-James gotta have it Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Southern, CT Posts: 779	Hey Steve, I just came accross this blurb on the home port project that I thought you and the others may find interesting- Home Port project going ahead, says Xcaret president By Diario Financiero 10 February 2005 Corporate Mexico The business group Xcaret assured that this year it will build the Home Port, a dock designed for cruise ships, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, in which it will invest US$80 million. Francisco Córdoba Lira, executive director of Xcaret, stated in a press conference that 2004 was an "extraordinary year" for the group, as its income grew 28% year-on-year to 1.3 billion pesos (US$117 million). He explained that with its various tourist projects, profits were up 53% year-on-year and it hired 4% more staff. Córdoba Lira stated that the delay in defining the future of the Home Port project was due to political issues, as the municipal president Gabriel Mandicut refused to give the group the go-ahead and hotel firms were strongly against the project. Nevertheless, the insider expressed his confidence that works would be started this year, especially considering the boom in cruise ship activities.

03-02-2005	#4 (permalink)
MWC añejo Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 5,649	Truly stupid question, but is the business group Xcaret also affiliated with the ecopark? Maybe some sort of boycott should be implemented. The last thing this area needs to do is encourage more of a boom in cruise ship activities.

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Jimmy-James gotta have it Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Southern, CT Posts: 779	Well, I won't be going to Xcaret anytime soon.

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