En Huatulco, hoteleros y restauranteros esperaban a más turistas: “La gente aún tiene miedo de ... El Universal Oaxaca Lee también: En Zipolite se teme más a las olas que al Covid, pero ... pues Puerto Escondido, Zipolite, Zicatela y Mazunte están entre un 50% y 60%.

 

En Huatulco, hoteleros y restauranteros esperaban a más turistas: “La gente aún tiene miedo de ... El Universal Oaxaca Lee también: En Zipolite se teme más a las olas que al Covid, pero ... pues Puerto Escondido, Zipolite, Zicatela y Mazunte están entre un 50% y 60%.

In Huatulco, hoteliers and restaurateurs waited for more tourists: "People are still afraid to go out," they lament

Of all the beach destinations in Oaxaca, Huatulco is the only one that has activated its tourist services up to 70%, since Puerto Escondido, Zipolite, Zicatela and Mazunte are between 50% and 60%

Huatulco.– Matilde González has been selling clams, oysters and tripe for 20 years in a makeshift stand located under a tree that provides shade on La Delivery beach, one of the most emblematic of Huatulco . Even though the influx of visitors is low, thank God for having some sales, because for this woman the arrival of 30% of tourists is enough to take out for the food and the investment the next day.

Last year, Matilde was unable to sell anything at Easter because the state government decided to close the destination due to the risk posed by the advance of an unknown virus in the Oaxacan territory. After two months, it started with intermittent days, so this season, this saleswoman confesses, is the date they were waiting to recover. 

Like her, established restaurateurs such as Arturo Lara, owner of the Ve el mar restaurant, in Bahía Santa Cruz, are grateful for the little tourism that has been dropped on these vacations, which remind them of the “holy” days of Catholicism. 

“We expected more, the truth, but people are still afraid to go out, but the few that we have, 36%, trust the destination, which occupies the last places among the beach destinations in the country for having the least number of infections , that's good for everyone, "he says. 

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Of all the beach destinations in Oaxaca , Huatulco is the only one that has activated its tourist services up to 70%, since  Puerto Escondido , Zipolite , Zicatela and Mazunte are between 50% and 60%.

This was because there was faith that, although the international visitors from Canada and the United States would not come, the season could be saved with the national visitors, but that hope was a long way off.

  Even so, it was the families who saved the economy of many other merchants, as they arrived in their own vehicles. Matilde, for example, the saleswoman from La Delivery, says that she was surprised not to see any bus on the entire road that leads to the beach. The few bathers arrived in their own vans.

“Before, the lines were huge, from the road there was no longer room for buses, there was a lot of tourists, the beach was bursting, I couldn't cope. Everything was over. Today, on the other hand, there is not a single bus, we hardly sell, we do not say that we have no sales, but not like before ”, comments Doña Matilde.

Ricardo Pacheco, Tourism Councilor of the Huatulco city council, points out that this Easter the hotel occupancy was between 36%, but they still expected that in the last days it will increase to 45%, which could give a respite to the hurt economy.