73.3% of the nearly 30,000 rooms that operate in Cancun do so under the modality of 'All Inclusive', a situation that, according to the leader of the restaurant guild of the region, Beatriz Delgado, negatively impacts tourist activity.
Delgado asked the government of Quintana Roo to finance a study on the economic impact of this type of lodging, because because the tourist no longer leaves the hotel in the last two years more than 100 restaurants have been closed in the downtown area and in the hotel zone of the city.
According to the result of a study conducted by the Municipal Planning Institute of Benito Juárez, the downtown area of Cancun registers a severe economic deterioration: more than 90% of the handicraft markets closed, part of the city center has become insecure and with its economy down, a panorama that is attributed to the 'All Inclusive' concept of hotels.
According to Roberto Cintrón, former leader of the Cancun Hotel Association, in the newspaper El Economista, from Mexico, "Little can be negotiated in terms of rates with the large wholesale agencies that bring tourism to Cancun; the hotel offer is immense and if a hotel is sold more expensive, as simple as they close the business with the hotel next door or some other in the Riviera Maya, Jamaica or Panama."
