VALLADOLID, Yucatán.— Hoteliers in the historic center of Valladolid are facing, at the height of the tourist season, complaints and cancellations of rooms due to poor planning of the construction works of a sewage treatment plant
residues in the area known as the municipal bazaar.
Faced with such economic, service and prestige damage for the companies of Valladolid, the hotel businessmen have requested the intervention of the President of the Mexican Association of Yucatan Hotels, Juan Jose Martin Pachecoto be a mediator between Valladolid Town Hallwho governs Alfredo Fernandez Arceoof the PAN, the state government or
the Secretary of State for Tourism Promotionbecause basically the construction work will cover all of the December holidays and therefore this damage will last for that period.
According to information provided by Martín Pacheco, the central problem is that the work is carried out during the night shift, so that hotel guests cannot rest, sleep or have peace of mind or services hoteliers, which led to the rental of rooms. and in this magical city.
They raised this problem and asked that we change the shift so that they are daytime, when everyone has activities, but the architect Alan Marrufo Quijanoa city official, has turned a deaf ear to the discussion of the damage caused by night work to hotel guests.
Faced with this situation of damage and the lack of response to the problem, one of the most damaged hoteliers, although this problem affects all accommodation centers and businesses near the works, directly asked the mayor on Wednesday 21 Fernández Arceo to resolve this situation because they make a bad impression on the guests, who are
disgusted with the noise of the machines and the stench, they ask for a change to another section of the hotel, but they are all rented and it is difficult to move customers around the hotels because it is high season for tourism.
Their letter to the mayor of Valladolid lists the following complaints:
1) Noise complaints from guests staying in rooms next to the municipal bazaar.
2) Affectation of direct noise in 25 rooms and indirectly in 33.
3) Dust in air conditioning compressors.
4) Bad smell throughout the main building.
5) Cancellation of groups due to noise complaints.
6) Request to change rooms without having the possibility of moving because everything is occupied.
7) Foul smell in restaurants and on terraces.
8) Request for reimbursement for cancellation of rooms.
Juan José Martín claimed that this is a very serious problem for hoteliers in Valladolid because they are in the middle of the high tourist season, it is the end of the year and there are a lot of reservations and the hotel industry de Valladolid is recovering and growing, but it also has low hotel occupancy.
“Valladolid’s hotel occupancy is doing very well, tourism is coming early for the end of the year and hoteliers are facing this problem of lack of planning and understanding of the business and economy of this region”, said said the hotel manager. “There is a good flow of tourism in Yucatan, we see it in the ADO bus terminals, Mérida airport has already received its 3 millionth passenger this year, there is a lot of movement and it is not practical for tourists to face this type of problem because their complaints spread and leave us badly as a tourist destination.
Martín Pacheco commented that during his visits to the commercial squares of Mérida and the historic center of the capital of Yucatan “I see everything full, in Cotsco I don’t know what they give because it is impossible to enter to buy. ”
Another good moment he observes on this New Year’s Eve 2022 is that it has been more than five years since hotels in Mérida had a high demand for Christmas dinners and since before Christmas Eve and Christmas this year, families and visitors have reserved places for your Christmas party. This means that tourism continues to grow in Yucatan and it is very likely that
reach the objective of having 80 to 85% hotel occupancy in December.
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