President Aguirre Curiel says he expects two million tourists to visit Chapala during Holy Week and Easter.Paseo Ramon Corona in Chapala will be converted to one-way to help handle traffic.
The Chapala boardwalk is a tourist favorite during vacation season. Photo: Internet.
Jazmín Stengel(Chapala).- Chapala’s Operativo Municipal Alegres Vacaciones (City Operation for Happy Holidays) helps keep tourists safe. This year they will also ensure that merchants treat visitors well, said authorities during the presentation of the operation for Holy Week and Easter, April 9 to 24.
Coordinator of Economic Development José Luis Chávez Rivas will coordinate with officials from the Markets and Regulations departments to avoid harassment of tourists and unreasonable cost increases.
An official notice sent to the merchants of the Chapala boardwalk prohibiting bargaining says, “All suppliers must respect the prices, rates, guarantees, quantities, qualities, measures, interests, charges, terms, deadlines, dates, modalities, reservations and other conditions according to which the delivery of the good or provision of service was offered, obliged or agreed with the consumer, and under no circumstances will these goods or services be negotiated to any person. Therefore, they must clearly post their prices of the service they offer to tourists.”
Public Safety, Civil Protection, Firefighters, and Mobility departments will operate on a regular basis. The State Emergency institutions, Harbormaster, Civil Protection of Jalisco, Red Cross, State Police and Roads, will support them.
There will be 99 Public Safety officers, who in turn have 22 vehicles supervising the busiest areas of the municipality 24 hours a day. The boardwalks of Ajijic and the municipal capital will also be guarded. In Chapala, an information module will be installed near the offices of the Municipal Sports Commission on Francisco I. Madero Avenue.
Municipal Mobility will add more people during the season to control the main entrances and exits of the municipality and the borders with Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jocotepec and Poncitlán.
The Director of Mobility, Moisés Ochoa Urquieta, wants to make Paseo Ramón Corona in Chapala a one-way street during Saints Week. That would force drivers onto González Gallo and Pepe Guízar Avenues, reducing crowds in downtown Chapala.
With six operational units, including two ambulances, Chapala’s Civil Protection and Fire Department will keep a close eye on the most accident-prone road points in the municipality. They will also monitor tourist-favored locations such as parks, boardwalks and forests.
In addition to working with all its staff and volunteers 24 hours a day, the Chapala Port Captaincy joined the supervision of the lakeshore, making available a state vessel. About 70 percent of Civil Protection and Fire Department personnel are emergency medical and rescue technicians.
Finally, Municipal President Alejandro Aguirre says he expects many tourists to generate even more problems with vital public services such as public sanitation, drinking water and garbage collection. Municipal Public Services Coordinator José Antonio Urzua Gracián will ensure that tourists visiting Chapala can take home the best memories of the “Little Corner of Love” as the city slogan goes.
President Aguirre Curiel says he expects two million tourists to visit the Chapala municipality during Holy Week and Easter. That’s why he launched the operation “Alegres Vacaciones en Chapala,” or Happy Holidays in Chapala.
During Holy Week in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, the Jalisco Secretariat of Tourism Jalisco registered more than 1.3 million visitors on the entire shore of Lake Chapala.
Translated by Mike Rogers
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