More Young People Are Visiting This Winter Than Seniors Rodrigo Lopez Becerril - Tribuna de la Bahia
go to original February 18, 2022

The winter tourist season has had a change in terms of the type of foreign tourists arriving in Puerto Vallarta, since during this period young adults have traveled more than retirees and senior citizens, surely due to uncertainty in the face of the COVID-19 contagions.

In the perception of businesswoman Maria Jose Zorrilla, owner of the Belmar Hotel, during this period there has been a radical change in the type of visitors arriving to the port:

"It radically changed the type of tourism that arrives in high season; normally they were retirees, senior citizens and older adults but now younger tourists have traveled, people who do home office, the nomadic travelers."

Fortunately, the hotelier notes that the economy has been recovering upwards since the middle of last year and even shared that high rates could be rescued although profit margins have been lower.

The recovery is already underway, she said, but the hardest hit sector is the small hotels, those who went out preferred to stay in beachfront places, with swimming pools; traditional hotels were the most affected, even so we have been between 70 and 80 percent occupancy in most hotels."

Another change observed by the hotelier is that since COVID there is greater immediacy in arrivals.

"As of COVID there are no longer medium and long term reservations, at this moment we cannot be sure how Easter or summer will be, we do not have the certainty that we had before COVID when we had reservations for future long weekends or vacation periods."

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