Tourism down winter 2014?

When was the heyday of zihua?

Pretty much throughout the 80's and 90's. The real decline started here about 12 or so years ago, at about the same time our then mayor decided he wasn't going to enforce the law against stealing public lands on our hillsides, and now we have tens of thousands of squatters, many of whom apparently weren't ever as poor as they pretended to be in order to get title to the land they stole. His infamous words giving a green light to land thieves were "I didn't put them up there, and I'm not going to bring them down". In the 3 years of his term the number of land thieves more than doubled, crime began to rise notably, pollution in the bay quickly became an acute problem, pretty much everything began to deteriorate at once. Oh, and of course that pretty much coincided with the period of the attacks of 9/11 when the mindset in the USA took a severe nosedive and fear & loathing took over.