Entrepreneurs in the commerce, services and tourism sector They foresee a slow recovery after the effects on around 80% of related businesses with tertiary activity in Guerrero due to the scourge of Hurricane Otis, as category 5, on the coasts of Acapulco, one of the most important tourist destinations in the country.
In a press conference, the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur), Héctor Tejeda, detailed this Thursday that, Although there are 83,801 businesses registered in the southern state of Guerrerothe specific damage that the tertiary sector could have suffered in the area affected by the hurricane has not yet been calculated.
Tejada said that there is talk of an 80% impact on the tertiary sector, while in the morning the governor of the southern state of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, also estimated the same figure for the hotel and commercial sector on the coast.
“The hotels are very destroyed, the restaurants are very destroyed, the businesses are very destroyed, today we do not have this quantification of damagealthough we will eventually have it and they must also coincide with the official data,” said Tejada.
In this sense, he pointed out that the most important thing at this moment, beyond economic recovery, is to address the humanitarian crisis that all residents and visitors in the entity are facing.
For his part, the president of Concanaco Servytur in the southern city of Mérida, Levy Abraham Macari, estimated that the recovery of activities would be slow and even predicted that The physical infrastructure of hotels and certain establishments may take up to two years to be fully reestablished
“We are going to compare tourist entities, Cancún, after its last hurricane, if there were hotels in Cancún that took up to two years to recover,” he emphasized.
The business leader of the tertiary sector in Mérida also commented that the recovery of each company for the damage from Cyclone Otis will depend on its capital, whether it had insurance and the type of policy and its coverage.
When remembering the last large event in Cancun, Wilma, Macari recalled that at that time the entity took up to two and a half weeks to reestablish the electricity supply, with which they began to recover services such as internet and mobile and landline telephony, and Shelters remained available for up to four months.
In this sense, he also asked the population to cooperate, Well, he also recognized that after events like these, streets are devastatedfallen trees, light poles, among other damages.
“Citizens have to participate, companies stepped up to create collection centers, business chambers were collection centers for the Red Cross because the first thing we have to do is find the people who were left homeless,” he expressed .
Hurricane Otis impacted as a category 5 on Wednesday on the coast of Guerreroin the Mexican Pacific, where it caused 27 deaths and left the coast without land communication for almost an entire day, due to the closure of the main accesses and the zero communication capacity through telephone and internet services, amid damage to businesses. .
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