Riviera Maya, Q.R. Along the route of the Maya Train, six hotels will be built, and the Ministry of National Defense will be in charge of them. On Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the hotels will be built by the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena).
During his state tour of Yucatan, López Obrador held his daily press conference in the city of Merida on Friday. He said that hotels will be built in the archaeological zones of Palenque, Edzná, Neuvo Uxmal, Chichén Itzá, Tulum, and Calakmul.
“In the first step, six hotels will be built. We already have four pieces of land along the route, but we are missing two,” he said, adding that one of the missing pieces was in Nuevo Uxmal. The government, however, has gotten back 2,400 hectares of land.
AMLO said in Nuevo Uxmal that most of that land, which he wants to make bigger, will become a nature reserve. He said that they are thinking about building a path through that reserve to connect the hotel to the archaeological zone.
AMLO said that they want another hotel to be close to the Natural Protected Area on the Calakumal route, which is the second Maya Train route without a land area set aside for a hotel (ANP).
The governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, also posted about the news on social media. “The good news for the southeast keeps coming! Along the route of TrenMayaMX, six hotels will be built, including one in Tulum. We appreciate that our president, @lopezobrador, cares about us,” she wrote on Twitter late Friday.
AMLO did not say when construction on the hotels would start, nor did he say what the hotels might be called or how much space they would have.
