LCHA reacts to US disposition and reports activities for 2021

The Los Cabos Hotel Association (LCHA) called a press conference with the presence of its directors from the board of directors to publicize the different actions that this association is carrying out through the committees assigned to each of its members , in addition to confirming the continuity of the board of directors for one more year by decision of the General Assembly of the 85 hotels of this association.

On the other hand and before the disposition of the United States government that as of January 26, its citizens who travel to Mexico must present a negative Covid test either PCR or Antigen at the time of their return, by air or land, which is much cheaper and can reach $ 50 or less.

Mauricio Salicrup, President of the Board of Directors of the LCHA: “… We are betting on facilitating this process, that there is only one single price, we are going to say it this way in everything that is not … not to make a business of this, but to facilitate the process … we have several allies local hospitals and we also have allies to the State Government with the Ministry of Health “

Asked if this cost can be included in the hosting packages or if they can do it directly on their own, he said:

Mauricio Salicrup, President of the Board of Directors of the LCHA: “… the effort that we are making, that it is unitary for all the hotels and since the hotels decide if with that price that we are offering them, they include it in their room rate or they prefer this … to charge it to the guests … “

Also that the facility for obtaining antigen tests may also be applied to hotel employees.

In relation to the guests who test positive, he spoke of preferential rates with certain conditions:

Mauricio Salicrup, President of the Board of Directors of the LCHA: “… for these passengers who will definitely be asymptomatic, then to be able to have this rate there is a condition that is that the guest is precisely quarantined inside the room… they will have to be inside their room, in the In the case of all-inclusive hotels, obviously the supply of food will be supervised by the Ministry of Health and in the EP (European Plan) a specific menu will be made or created with the recommendations of the doctors “

Given the possibility that an insurance company could cover these risks, he commented:

Mauricio Salicrup, President of the Board of Directors of the LCHA: “The Hotel Association cannot get into the insurance issue precisely because it is an issue that each business unit has a corporate and the corporate has its legal department that has all these negotiations, what I understand is that there are already several business units, several hotels that are already beginning to explore coverage … “

On the other hand, the LCHA released the satus of the hotel occupancy of the 17,500 rooms of 2020, the current and comparative with respect to 2019, the Executive President of the LCHA said:

Lilzi Orcí, Executive President LCHA: “Hotel occupancy closing 2020 with 34% accumulated occupancy, that is, with two months of being at 0% versus 69% occupancy that we closed in 2019”

She also reaffirmed that as a tourist destination it maintains the highest average rate in the country with $ 300 per night.

Lilzi Orcí, Executive President LCHA: “Around $ 300 … the rate did not drop as it might be in other destinations, we were an agreement that we do have very precise not to make the destination cheaper”

She finally spoke of the number of visitors since 2019 and what is expected for this 2021:

Lilzi Orcí, Executive President LCHA: “… in 2019 we had 2.75 million visitors, this 2020 contracted by 45% reaching 1.5 and for 2021 we expect 2.5 …”

It is worth mentioning that the LCHA maintains a very important internal communication in order to join forces for the destination.

Armando García, LCHA Purchasing Committee: “If Los Cabos does well, we will all do well, and I believe that the main competitor is not next to you, if they are not international destinations such as Hawaii , like Cayman, everything that is the same Riviera Maya is a competitor of the destination, not of my hotel, not of my individual business unit.

Currently the LCHA board of directors is made up of the following hotel councilors with very specific responsibilities in different committees:

Mauricio Salicrup, Pdte. Admvo, Security

Armando García, Shopping

Ricardo Orozco, Treasurer and Health

David Ocete – Government Affairs

Giuliana Torres, Statistics

Mauricio Quezada, Sustainability

Raul Chi – Training and Food and Beverages

John Kirwan, SPA

The General Coordination is in charge of the Executive President Lilzi Orcí and the Director Elisa Araos.

Among other ongoing activities coordinated by the LCHA in addition to having initiated talks to obtain permits for the purchase of vaccines for employees and tourists are those carried out with the collaboration of groups such as the Batel Club (gastronomic) to teach various courses; corridor cleaning programs; cultural conventions with ethnic groups for the exhibition of handicrafts, dances and gastronomic exhibitions to tourists; also agreements with the municipality to rehabilitate public parks through a program called “Parks with Life”.