Lilci Orcí Executive President of the Los Cabos Hotel Association

There are 84 partners, 3 of them are in Todos Santos, 40 of them have already made the decision, two weeks ago, to close operations, this is equivalent to more than 60% of hotels that remain open, it is very important to mention that the man power with which they are working is very low, according with the occupations that they have been presenting.

Until yesterday we were at 4% and it is a downward trend.

They also have comply with the cleaning standards stipulated by the health sector to be operating, so far it is also important to mention that the consumption centers and common areas are closed, like restaurants and spas, according with the COVID19 protocol to take care of all the employees, all this to contain the virus and stop the spread of it.

The hotel sector is very aware of the economic effects that this pandemic is going to bring to Los Cabos, Specially it’s important to Los Cabos that 90% of the local economy depends on tourism as you mentioned, we have been working very close, hand to hand with the human resources association that works also with the state system of employment of Los Cabos, through the presidents of both dependencies, who have been seeing together, to try to identify some schemes that will help to provide security to employees, to be able to stay and maintain the labor base salary, this because each hotel is making its own decisions, each hotel as an individual company and taking the necessary measures, but always with the objective and the commitment to maintain the main number of employees with base salary.