Acapulco boasts highest hotel occupancy among Easter holiday beach destinations

The edifice metropolis of Acapulco, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Otis successful October 2023, led edifice occupancy during the Easter vacation season, with a 92% occupancy complaint according to information from the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur).

These figures spot the metropolis arsenic the destination with the highest Holy Week occupancy complaint successful the country, surpassing tourism destinations similar Mazatlán, Cancún, Puerto Escondido and Puerto Vallarta.

Sectur reported that the precocious tourer influx was distributed crossed the port’s main areas. The Diamond Zone, known for lodging the iconic edifice Princess Mundo Imperial, reported an occupancy complaint of 92%. Meanwhile successful the Golden Zone, astatine the ft of the Miguel Alemán coastline, 93% of rooms were booked.

Finally, the country known arsenic Acapulco Tradicional reported 90% occupancy.

After Hurricane Otis deed Acapulco arsenic a Category 5 tempest successful 2023, Guerrero’s apical formation destination was decimated. The betterment was analyzable by the accomplishment of Hurricane John conscionable a twelvemonth later. Acapulco continues to rebuild, and presently operates with 15,000 rooms distributed crossed 274 hotels — 76% of what its hospitality assemblage offered pre-Otis.

Booking.com information revealed that Acapulco was among the destinations with the highest fig of reservations from April 17 to 20, on with Veracruz, Puerto Vallarta and Puerto Escondido.

“How wonderful! Long unrecorded Acapulco,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said aft learning the edifice occupancy figures. “How large that the [Guerrero’s and Acapulco’s] politician and politician are promoting the instrumentality of cruise ships to the port,” she said, portion highlighting the value of tourism arsenic a operator of economical development.

Sheinbaum’s connection came successful effect to an nonfiction published by the paper El País, which contrasted the accomplishment of tourer cruise ships with the port’s betterment and escalating violence.

Meanwhile, the Hotel Association of Cancún, Puerto Morelos and Isla Mujeres reported an mean occupancy complaint of betwixt 65% and 70% successful downtown and formation hotels. It besides revealed that Cancún, historically 1 of the starring planetary destinations of the region, received an mean of 485 regular flights — importantly beneath the 600 regular flights that the relation had expected during Holy Week.

With reports from Milenio, Reportur and SPD Noticias