My experience in Cancun earlier in the week was consistent with these numbers, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see the occupancy rate plunge even lower.

High schools were reopening the day after I left, and the lower schools were scheduled to reopen next week.  The city seems to be getting a handle on things, and slowly starting to return to everyday life.

Sadly, the echo effect that the swine flu will have on the Mexican economy will last long past the reopening of the schools.

If you’d like to hear more of my thoughts about traveling to Mexico, especially my recent experience in Cancun, I was interviewed by Addison Schonland, from the IAG Group (an aviation consulting firm) and you can listen to the IAG podcast.

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Mexico Hotel Occupancy Drops

What they did is they created a group known as the Waste Commission. They will also be working on creating processing centers that are high-tech. These will be the ones responsible for dealing with the waste and that would mean recycling what can be still used, composting, and burning which can be used for additional energy.

Atiliano Savino is the current president of the International Solid Waste Association. Now on this move from Mexico City, he says, “The whole concept of recycling is very new in Latin America.”

But they sure are working on it. And that’s good news!

Source: Calgary Sun

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