Good news continues to reach out to the Los Cabos Tennis Open. Just a few weeks before its fourth edition is held, the organization has confirmed the return of Argentines, Juan Martin Del Potro to the tournament to take place in Los Cabos.

Ranked 12th in the world rankings after his recent participation in Roland Garros, Del Potro has chosen ATC 2019 as his first hardcourt tournament in the second half of the season.

It should be noted that, in the days after the final that he played in Los Cabos, Del Potro reached third place in the world ranking, the best position of his career and with which he appeared at the US Open. In that tournament, the Argentine tennis player reached the final, where he lost to Serbian Novak Djokovic.

Weeks after his adventure at Flushing Meadows, Del Potro suffered a knee injury at the Shanghai Masters, which prevented him from participating in the Nitto ATP Finals and closing the season satisfactorily.

After a rehabilitation of six months and a first return in February of this year, the one born in Tandil, Argentina finally returned to the courts in Madrid. A couple of weeks after his reappearance in the Spanish capital, Del Potro was present in Rome and there he reached the quarterfinals, where he led the world number one, Novak Djokovic, to a dramatic definition of three sets.

At Roland Garros, Del Potro showed signs of his physical improvement as he advanced to the 16th Round, where he fell to Russian Karen Khachanov. Along the way, the 30-year-old tennis player defeated Chilean Nicolás Jarry, the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka and the Australian Jordan Thompson.

"It’s great news for us that [Juan Martín] Del Potro has decided to return to Los Cabos," said

José Antonio Fernández, Director of the Los Cabos Open. "We have a great relationship with him and his team, we know they were very grateful for the total experience we offered them last year."

Del Potro, next to dispute the Grass Tour and Wimbledon, joins the defending tournament champion the Italian Fabio Fognini, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, and his compatriot Diego Schwartzman.

"Tennis is a sport capable of offering immediate rematches, and now we are facing the possibility that Del Potro and Fognini will meet again in Los Cabos, but we are sure that this year's competition will be closer, especially for the names that are already confirmed and those that we will announce in the coming days, "Fernandez said.

The fourth edition of the Tennis Open will take place July 29 to August 3ed at Delmar International School. Tickets are on sale at ticket offices in Mexico City and Los Cabos, and through the Ticketmaster system.

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Miguel Loya, Director of Business Development RCI Mexico Pacific, comented that Los Cabos continues to consolidate and maintain it’s self as the highest quality destination nationwide, today we are delivering the highest recognition within RCI, called Gold Crown Hacienda del Mar, also we are delivering an additional recognition called Excellence & Service, which is strictly oriented to the service and quality and the warmth of the human resource within the complex .

After receiving the award, Miguel Guerrero General Manager Hacienda del Mar, expressed his feelings:

Very happy to receive this award after 25 consecutive years, and of course grateful to all the people who make this award possible because without them we could not achieve something so representative in our company.

Located within the tourist corridor, only ten kilometers from Cabo San Lucas, Hacienda del Mar offers the most spectacular views and luxurious rooms to offer visitors the best experience possible.

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Rodrigo Esponda Dir. of Fiturca Los Cabos said that as part of the actions they have carried out during the Tourism Tianguis there have been meetings with both domestic and foreign airlines to improve connectivity to the destination:

"We’ve had meetings with the main airlines, both national and foreign, among the most important things was an assembly of our Advisory Board, we have an advisory board of partners, with whom we meet twice a year, always at the VIP Summit and once here at this market every year. So we met day before yesterday with them, we reviewed some of the strategies, statistics, flow, as you can see for next season in Los Cabos we have very good news about how the campaign is running and the marketing plans that we have with them. We’ve also had meetings confirming some new routes that are going to be arriving in the destination and with Viva Aerobus that has 2 new routes already announced, the first is from Tijuana which is a market that already has a route, with this it’s going to open more, it will further boost the flow, and the second to Hermosillo, which is an interesting market in the north of Mexico City co, the flight will start on July 16^th and with this we will have more connectivity from any or other places more interesting, and with themselves with VivaAerobus ".

He also mentioned seeking to expand the market to attract tourism from other latitudes:

"We have had meetings with some companies from Europe, South America, Asia, presenting some alternative projects we have, although the priority is to continue consolidating what are our primary markets the United States and Canada, where we still have a lot of potential for growth".

Regarding the promotion strategies mentioned:

"We reviewed with the partners the marketing campaign, they have been running, they were introduced, they gave us some feedback, we reviewed some routes with the American companies for the coming year, for example some specific flights that we need to develop markets like Kansas City , Indianapolis, San Antonio Texas that does not have a direct connection, we hope that next year it will be made, the national market that works the shortest, we will talk about some routes, Puebla, some of the north Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, that may have some potential, of Central America we talked some in Europe, so we are continuing conversations that we have developed so that the destiny continues to consolidate ".

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Despite the fact that during the inauguration of the Acapulco Tianguis the President of the National Association of Hotel Chains, Luis Barrios directly requested the support of at least 125 million dollars per year as seed for the tourist promotion of the country, when the Mexico Tourist Promotion Council (CPTM) was canceled, both President López Obrador and Tourism Secretary Torruco stressed that support is already being given through special resources to improve infrastructure in marginal areas in the main tourist destinations, in addition to the special dedicated emphasis in reinforcing security but without compromising any resources from promotion that will have to be in charged now by private initiative at each destination.

Notwithstanding the above, the state representative of tourism in Baja California Sur, still does not lose hope that plans change and resources are allocated to such an important promotional task.

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