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Development creation for Huatulco
Grupo Reforma / Negocios / Karla Ramírez
In September, FONATUR will re-launch Huatulco, with the signature of four agreements with hotel chains that will add to the destination an offer of luxury condominiums.
 “Although the Integrally Planed Center (CIP) of Huatulco was stopped in previous years, in this administration the lands have been sold very well, so that the hotels even have their part of condominiums, time shares, and fractional ownership because is a way of recovering the investment”, said John McCarthy, CEO of the National Trust Fund for Tourism Development (FONATUR).
Huatulco’s take off began during the administration of Miguel de la Madrid, but due to the lack of budget the project was kept in the oblivion.
The CIP of Huatulco’s Bays was launched in 1996, 227 kilometers of the capital of the State of Oaxaca and 763 km of Mexico City.
In the master plan of its development was contemplated to utilize 9.93% of the surface for the tourist zone, 3.31% for the urban zone, 40.66% for the ecological reserve and 46.10% for other uses.
“It has all the infrastructure in electricity and water, but still working in two highways, one that goes from Salina Cruz to Huatulco and the other one from Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido”, added McCarthy. The Salina Cruz - Oaxaca toll highway will shorten the journey from 6 and a half to 3 and a half hours -
At the moment they are more than one thousand 800 rooms in operation, 95 units of time share and an 18 holes professional golf course.
This destination begins to appear in the world-wide market of cruises with the construction and putting in operation of the Santa Cruz Cruise Ship Pier, which has a capacity to simultaneously attend two cruises and a total of 3 thousand passengers each one.
 Huatulco receives 2 thousand 960 flights annually, which equals to 138 thousand visitors airway only.
In this administration, Fonatur sold lots for commercial, equipment, residential, industrial and hotel uses.
Some of the projects in action are the Chahue Marine, a construction oriented to the segment of the nautical, recreational, commercial and residential market, with a total surface of 16.54 hectares.
The Oaxaca Beach Project, tourist and recreational development of popular character around a central plaza with a surface of 39.02 hectares, where intends to urbanize 99 lots for several uses. Work is also being carried out on the “La Esperanza” residential development, of 23 hectares.
Seeking paradise...
The National Trust Fund of Tourism Development puts its eyes again in the Oaxaca complex.
In 1969, Mexican government officials flew over the area in search of new spaces for tourism; they discover the nine bays and 36 beaches that form the Huatulco Bays.
· In 1985, the works began to turn it the fifth CIP of Fonatur.
· It has become an interesting place for the European and North American visitor.
· Huatulco extends in a territory of 21 thousand hectares and a coastal strip of 35 kilometers. |
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