Acapulco looks to jump-start its tourism industry as hurricane recovery enters a new phase

The national authorities announced this week that it volition put much than 8 cardinal pesos (US $386 million) implicit the adjacent respective years arsenic Acapulco enters a caller signifier of betterment aft the transition of 2 hurricanes successful the past 16 months.

President Claudia Sheinbaum visited the Pacific Coast edifice connected Thursday to contiguous details of the betterment plan, called Transforming Acapulco with You. The program aims to renovate the larboard city’s infrastructure, revive tourism and rehabilitate the iconic semicircular bay connected which Acapulco is located.

Sheinbaum introduced the astir caller hurricane betterment program connected Thursday day successful Acapulco. (Presidencia)

Sheinbaum was joined by respective members of her Cabinet including Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez and Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard, arsenic good arsenic businessmen Carlos Slim (president of Grupo Carso), José Antonio Hernández (president of Mundo Imperial) and Francisco Cervantes (president of the Business Coordinating Council).

The president, who has made 7 trips to the beleaguered metropolis since taking bureau connected Oct. 1, 2024, reaffirmed her government’s committedness to the region.

“We can’t travel present lone erstwhile calamity occurs,” she said. “We indispensable revitalize Acapulco.”

Among the highlights of the plan is the constitution of a caller 3,510-hectare territory dedicated to tourism that volition beryllium developed connected the occidental broadside of the bay. The territory volition see parts of Acapulco and neighboring Coyuca, including the Las Playas edifice area.

The recently designated tourism territory volition see the peninsula of Las Playas, disposable astatine the precocious right. (Visit Mexico)

The national government, via the bureau Fonatur, volition presume work for the proviso of services (electricity, h2o and trash collection) arsenic good arsenic the rehabilitation of the infrastructure successful the area, portion moving with the authorities and section governments to plan this caller space.

The authorities has already spent astir 740 cardinal pesos (US $36 million) to repair roads and highways successful Guerrero since the portion was battered by Hurricane Otis successful October 2023 and Hurricane John successful September 2024. It expects to walk a full of 1.9 cardinal pesos (US $91 million) to repair authorities roads and national highways successful Guerrero done the extremity of this year.

Another 173 cardinal pesos (US $8.3 million) has been spent successful supplying potable h2o to 834,000 residents since past October. Future investments of up to 1.8 cardinal pesos (US $86.6 million) volition beryllium acceptable speech to h2o pipes and attraction plants.

The Sheinbaum medication has besides worked to region trash and debris, refurbished much than 1,500 schools and spent millions to reconstruct energy to the region’s 50 municipalities.

With reports from La Jornada, El Sol de México and Infobae