Visiting Mazatlán at this time is something to think about, said the president of the Mexican Association of Travel Agencies (AMAV), Miguel Luna, who added that the recommendation for Chihuahuans is to go to other beach destinations such as Cancun, Puerto Vallarta or Los Cabos and thus not expose themselves to risks.
He explained that as a result of the violence that Sinaloa has been experiencing for three months, Mazatlán -considered the beach of Chihuahua- stopped selling and hotel reservations began to be cancelled.
“Right now people are refraining from buying,” said Miguel Luna.
Precisely during December, he said, they began to make reservations in hotels and purchase vacation packages for Carnival and the summer on the beach in Sinaloa, which did not happen this year.
He mentioned that the disappearance of two Chihuahuans who were vacationing in the port was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so the recommendation to travelers is to consider other destinations.
“These are no longer isolated incidents, there are already complicated situations, so we recommend analyzing other destinations or scheduling for summer,” he explained.
At the end of September, travel agencies cancelled and rescheduled land trips to Mazatlán due to the violence reported on the Durango-Mazatlán highway.
He added that the clashes and roadblocks by criminal groups increased the demand for flights from the capital to the Sinaloa port by around 30 percent since October.
“These are no longer isolated incidents, there are already complicated situations, so we recommend analyzing other destinations or scheduling for summer”
Miguel Luna, President of AMAV
On that occasion, the municipal president of Chihuahua himself, Marco Antonio Bonilla Mendoza, called on the population to avoid traveling to that city by land, due to the risk situation.
Meanwhile, just last Monday, December 16, two young people from Chihuahua disappeared after leaving the Nice nightclub. They are Roberto Treviño Leos and Iván Alejandro Escalante Tamez, aged 21 and 23, whose disappearance has generated reactions from family and friends demanding that they be searched for while alive.
Source: eldiariodechihuahua
