They propose an increase in the Lodging Tax, 1% would go to the FOIS: Mauricio Salicrup

Salicrup

The president of the Administrative Council of the Los Cabos Hotel Association, Mauricio Salicrup, acknowledged in an interview for Los Cabos a la Carta and Cabovisión News the recognition given to the offices of the Los Cabos Tourism Trust (FITURCA) by Virtuoso during the Travel Week 2022 held in Las Vegas from August 13 to 18: "We have to take into account that FITURCA was nominated and competed in this list as the best tourism office, but let's remember that it is exclusively from Los Cabos and competed against entire countries, That speaks of the importance and the work that is done as a team so that the economic engine continues to work properly and we continue to have the results that have been obtained,” he said.

On the other hand, he explained that unfortunately there was a debt left after the departure of the previous administration destined for the operation of FITURCA, although he recognized that the exercise of the cash flow under the Ministry of Finance is different since this new possession, although it has not been been able to settle the previous balance: “in addition to this, we obviously have the issue of how the income flows from the lodging tax have been exceeding the budget, we have been working with the SETUE and with the Ministry of Finance so that they recognize these income and we can apply them to issues that were not labeled at the beginning of the budget due to the budget cap that the State Congress itself had set for us... the FITURCA management has been able to label these resources that have been higher than expected to be executed actions that are attractive for new airplane seats and for more tourism from different parts of the world” he explained.

To conclude, Mauricio Salicrup mentioned that the initiative to modify Article 18 that speaks of the distribution of the money obtained from the lodging tax that proposes to allocate 33% of it to the Infrastructure and Social and Tourist Work Trust (FOIS) and 55 % for FITURCA: "what we did when we learned about the initiative was to try to have a dialogue with this bench in principle so that they knew precisely the work and the issue of resource management, how it is applied and where we are applying it" he said, By accepting that compared to other destinations in other countries, the Los Cabos Tourism Trust handles very little resources, so with what has been achieved, very good work has been carried out. In addition, he mentioned that talks were held with the SETUE and they were able to deliver a proposal that states that the lodging tax be modified from 3 to 4 percent and that an additional one be distributed to the FOIS.

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