La Ropa Changes

This isn't about the Constituciôn or tourism, it's about the personal interests of a very few influential people.

The "certified beach" project in Ixtapa has cost Ixtapa tourists with the spending power we need. Apparently this matters nothing at all to the influent people pushing this policy.

How did the project in Ixtapa cost Ixtapa.....Tourists?

Dave

Because a substantial amount of tourists quit going to ixtapa after Playa El Palmar became a "playa certificada" because they could no longer enjoy the beach in the manner they were accustomed to. They couldn't walk their dogs on the beach. They couldn't take a stroll on the beach with a drink in hand if that drink was in a glass or styrofoam container. They couldn't have a picnic on the beach. They couldn't take styrofoam coolers to the beach as hundreds of tourists used to do daily. The city government never even noticed the drop in tourism because they neither measure it accurately and apparently they just don't care. Lots of long-term visitors with the spending power we need simply stopped coming, as is starkly evident by the almost always empty golf course and tennis courts. As long as the big high-rise hotels have large volumes of warm bodies in their all-included rooms it doesn't matter if more tourists are actually spending less and not buying anything off the hotel property. Meanwhile, restaurants that have been there for decades continue closing, shops continue closing, and the commercial shopping centers become a little more forlorn each day. Ixtapa is not providing nowhere near the benefit to the community it used to or is supposed to since the big hotels are now simply sucking the cash cow dry and then taking the cash elsewhere. Practically the only folks investing in Ixtapa now are corporate facades of corrupt politicians and other criminals looking to launder their money.