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Puerto Vallarta. Photo by: Ed Walsh
The article below is a rough translation from the Mexican news Web site Melenio.com. If you understand Spanish, click here for the original article. The article was dated Friday, May 15. It quotes an economist from University of Guadalajara who says that it could take the tourism industry in Mexico a year to recover from the flu scare.
Gay tourism should aid in Vallarta's recovery. None of the gay people I know who regularly visit Vallarta have cancelled their trips.
For my most recent post that includes a first-person account of what it is like in Puerto Vallarta now, click here.
Here's that Melenio article. The article refers to Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara are in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
If each Jalisco family today had to contribute to repay the economic losses that the health alert by the virus of influenza A-H1N1 has caused only in the restaurant, hotel, and entertainment businesses, the payment would be of around 8,000 pesos ($600 US dollars), explained Jaime Lopez Delgadillo, of the Economics Department of the University of Guadalajara.
And the economic damage in these three week and a half of the health alert in Jalisco is of about 2 pecent of the total gross domestic product of the state, according to Delgadillo.
Delgadillo added that the biggest impact of the flu crisis was to the tourism sector of the Mexican economy. He said that tourism industry was devastated by the crisis and would take at least a year to recover.
The hotelkeepers Puerto Vallarta reported doing less than 10-percent of normal business during the crisis.
Delgadillo explained that, besides the economic impact, the health sector also had its costs, like the amount of attention and resources - medicines, laboratories, manpower, materials that have been used to face the disease and that, therefore, have caused resources to be diverted from people suffering from other diseases such as cancer.
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