The controversy over the convenience of "all-inclusive" hotels has not stopped, now it is the guild of restaurants that have raised their voices of protest to complain because, they say, this system monopolizes tourism and affects the economy of business.
This is the situation in the center of Quintana Roo, where hoteliers attribute high demand to their investments in advertising.
For its part, the restaurant sector recognizes the effort of the hotels that belong to this system, but they ask that they be included in the promotions that are made of the destination and the country abroad.
According to Gabriela Delgado, president of the National Chamber of the Restaurant Industry and Spicy Foods (Canirac), part of the budget that is allocated to the promotion of the destination should be dedicated to the gastronomic sector, not only channeled to hoteliers.
"We don't have to ask for crumbs, when by right we have a percentage of that promotion." The official also revealed that Canirac has a portfolio within the Cancun Promotion Trust, but that it is never used.
Likewise, Delgado was emphatic in affirming that restaurateurs have a voice and vote before that body but that "they do not support them like hoteliers to attend tourism fairs that are held in different parts of the country and the world."
To argue her claim, the official calculated that in recent years more than 100 restaurants have been closed, which has lost an average of a thousand sources of employment because the tourist finds everything in his hotel and does not go out to the center of the city.
For his part, the president of the Cancun Hotel Association (AHC), Rodrigo de la Peña Segura, explained that "this scheme is given for market reasons, since it is the same tourist who asks for it, because it is cheaper for his stay in the destination."
