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We are very much opposed to the Blue Flag BS on Playa la Ropa.

Our question is whether the "no chairs or umbrellas" on the beach rule is a Guerrero temporary regulation to help control Covid, or a Blue Flag rule. We suspect it is a Guerrero regulation.

If the no chairs or umbrellas on the beach is a Guerrero rule, when is it going to change? When the beaches are covered this winter with Canadian and US tourists who are going to be extremely upset that they can't spend their winter on the beach? Someone isn't thinking. There is every indication that the international visitors are going to be very thick this winter. They spend money, it is important to not fry them on the sand with no chairs or umbrellas.

I suspect the pandemia rules will be incorporated into the "certificación" rules so that people are forced into using hotel and restaurant furniture and services where they have to pay a minimum fee. I also suspect the local government, who doesn't make its living from tourism, will try to ignore the foreigners, the loss of tourism, and everything else they can ignore until the LODGING OPERATORS speak up. But so far it appears many of the lodging operators are just fine with seeing locals and poorer visitors run off the beaches, though I know several who aren't. They act like they don't notice the loss of foreigners. I notice. I have letters from foreigners announcing their cancellations, including this winter from La Madera if it also gets "certified". But lodging operators who want favors from the government (condonación de pagos de impuestos, agua, etcétera) so far apparently feel compelled to stay silent. Just like they did with the downtown walkway cutting down all the tall palm trees and almendro trees. The restaurants stayed silent because they were getting FREE LUXURY PALAPAS.