
- On 6/12/20
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, has actually announced strategies to reopen to travelers back in June, signing up with Greece and Iceland as some of the earliest locations to openly project to revive tourists this summer season.
Cancun and the Riviera Maya invited their first tourists in June, after more than two months when almost all the hotels were shut. But the few tourists who appeared at the 41 hotels that have partly resumed are a small trickle compared to the 23 million that crowded the coast last year, bringing about $15 billion to the regional economy.
It's a slow start; hotels will only be allowed to reach 30 percent of their capacity to avoid crowding. More capacity will be permitted later with some hotels intending to reach 50 percent of capability in July. Prior to the pandemic, tenancy rates of 85 percent were not unusual.
Gibran Chapur, vice president of the Palace resort chain, stated his company invited about 300 tourists on the first day, 70 percent of them from the United States.
Now, if you're confused, you're not the only one. As part of an arrangement enacted in March, all nonessential travel in between the United States and Mexico has actually been restricted. The due date to resume the U.S.-Mexico border was recently extended through June 22. So how are Americans getting to Cancun?
Technically, flights have actually been allowed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to train and sea travel; driving throughout the border, commuter rail, and ferryboat travel have been prohibited. Flights have actually still been showing up in Quintana Roo, although mostly empty. We attempted to reserve a JetBlue flight online, New York-JFK to Cancun round trip, July 20-26, and came across no barriers.
Upon arrival in Mexico, travelers will require health screenings like temperature level checks, Cancun's airport has thermographic electronic cameras that register travelers with fevers, the CPTQ director explained.
In conjunction with the secretary of health, Mexico's secretary of tourist released procedure for the hospitality industry to tidy hotels and help visitors feel safe while COVID-19 remains a risk. Among the suggestions:.