With this experience, the businessmen expressed their dissatisfaction with the Mayan Train passing over the highway, since it would be at least two years of works, which would entail damages similar to those experienced in the previous months.
“Moving the material, the whales, the trailers, everything that a project of this magnitude entails, chaos was already foreseen as with the ‘sinkholes’, economic losses, affectation of workers and tourism,” says Lenin Amaro.
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The demand went from private meetings to public acts. First, a letter was sent to the then incumbent Rogelio Jiménez Pons, where the request was made, who accepted a meeting at the Municipal Palace of Playa del Carmen, which was held on December 22, 2021. At the meeting, businessmen and hoteliers They gave their arguments.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the change earlier in the year. “It is not on the shore of the beach, it is behind, it is a new line,” he said at a press conference in which he asked for the support of the hotel sector for the modification, so the second meeting agreed for mid January 2022, because earlier than scheduled, with Javier May Rodríguez as the new director of Fonatur, the change was announced.
Daniel Chávez, one of the most important businessmen in the area, is also an “honorary supervisor” in the work, named after the president. In June 2020, when the federal Executive gave the initial signal, Chávez Morán promoted the work and ruled out any conflict, since he assured that he would not make any investment in the work or charge for his services.
“We are going to have the support of businessman Daniel Chávez Morán. Daniel Chávez is a businessman in the Mexican tourism sector, he has a social dimension, he is the most important businessman in the tourism sector in Mexico”, he affirmed.
The businessman has a hotel development in the Riviera Maya, cataloged as the most luxurious of the line, which is located on the Cancun-Playa del Carmen highway, where the train was going to pass. In addition, Grupo Vidanta, owned by Daniel Chávez, recently added drinks based on Chocolates Rocío, a company owned by López Obrador’s children, to its menus.
