Fonatur, the National Fund for Tourism Development, promises much but delivers little, according to its critics. Cancun is the one great success, followed by Los Cabos, although Los Cabos was attracting tourists before anyone ever heard of Fonatur. The three other original master-planned resort areas – Ixtapa, Huatulco and Loreto – have not lived up to their claimed potential. Playa Espiritu on the Pacific in Sinaloa and the Nautical Stairway planned for the Sea of Cortes seem to have been abandoned along with Costa Maya south of the Riviera Maya and Costa Lora, on the Gulf of Mexico south of Brownsville and Matamoros. All this was pointed out recently by Rodrigo Gallegos in a study made for the Mexico Competiveness Institute.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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