Revista Digital Agosto – Septiembre

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Building on the success of hotel investments
in this state, services, materials and
equipment have today reached over to
other tourist destinations such as Los Cabos,
Huatulco, and as far as the Dominican
Republic. The local know-how, developed as
a result of these successful operations, has
encouraged the export of different goods and services such as food, furniture,
industrial equipment for inverse osmosis (desalination equipment), preinsulated
piping, legal & managerial services, cleaning services, audiovisual
services, and many other.
Quintana Roo is clearly now the home of a very own economy and
manufacturing industry, rapidly expanding over to other destinations.
This growing diversification will benefit from the strategic presence of the
Cancun International Airport, directly connected and at the same distance from
cities such as Los Angeles and New York, Bogota and Houston, Atlanta and
Panama, Mexico City and Santo Domingo, Guatemala and Miami, and more.
This airport is also a direct entry point for Europe.
On the other hand, a new economic approach is also needed; an approach
focused on the corporate side of things that can address not only regional
needs, but also national and international needs, including all of Latin America
and the Caribbean. Such an approach would open the door to new real estate
investment in Quintana Roo that would accommodate its emerging business
economy, this way further developing and diversifying other economic hubs,
so as not to depend so heavily on tourism and the hospitality industry.
In several ways, there are certain parallels between Cancun and Miami: both
cities are located at a peninsular end in the Caribbean, both were conceived
from their inceptions as tourist hubs, located in once-inhospitable areas lacking
communication channels at the time. Miami is today an important financial
axis wherein large companies operate for the US, Mexico, the Caribbean and
South America. It is clearly not necessary to reinvent the wheel, it is just a
matter of replicating and modelling after success stories.
economía de negocios, y, de esta
forma, desarrollar y diversificar
otras economías para dejar de ser
dependientes del turismo y la industria
de la hospitalidad.
En muchos aspectos, existe cierta
analogía entre Cancún y Miami: ambas
ciudades se localizan en el Caribe, en
el extremo de una península; desde
sus orígenes, fueron pensadas como
polos turísticos, emergiendo en una
zona inhóspita y en su momento
carentes de vías de comunicación.
No obstante, actualmente, Miami
es un importante centro financiero,
donde grandes empresas operan para
Estados Unidos, México, el Caribe,
Centroamérica y América del Sur. No
es necesario inventar el hilo negro, se
trata simplemente de replicar y seguir
casos de éxito.
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