CelebraZIHones Decembrinas

As I said before WTF does Blue Flag certification have to do with anything you just said? You named several issues that are at the root of your problems. None regarding beaches being properly maintained. Zihuatanejo has fallen off the tourist track. To wit, the lack of flights from anywhere to ZIH. During the recent two years that we lived there our family and friends couldn't visit us unless they were willing to travel18+ hours. And worse an overnight in LA. From Oregon and Northern California. Damn those Blue Flag rules. I know none of this will sit well with your "true believers" but you have made up your own bogeyman. Keep pounding away at it. You may drive some more people away. Regarding my "personal comfort" that's what retirement is all about. Although our Mexican work visas are still valid I'll leave that to young bucks like you. Feliz Navidad!

One more time:
Blue Flag is being used here to prohibit people from taking foodstuffs to the beach, among other things. The result is that locals feel banned from Blue Flag beaches.

The pandemia is (or was) being used as an excuse to prohibit beach chairs and umbrellas.

Apparently you're unaware of the recent resumption of flights from Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco, among other places.

No "made-up bogeyman". Simply the perspective of working locals as compared to visitors/retirees/tourists who neither live like locals nor earn their living here. I wish you wouldn't mock a situation that has hurt our local tourism and our local prosperity. The only people I might drive away would be some overbearing and racist Republicans and folks looking for Acapulco, Cancún, Los Cabos, Disneyland, Vallarta or Miami Beach. I consider that a win for Zihuatanejo. We prefer not to suffer abuse for money. We aren't prostis.