Cancun Hopes to Score Sellout Occupancy Rates in Holy Week

A grand total of 260,000 visitors with $147 million in their pockets are expected to come to Cancun during the oncoming Holy Week festivities, pushing up hotel occupancy to 95 percent during that brief span of time, local hoteliers believe.

As we speak, hotel occupancy is in the neighborhood of 85 percent, with as many as 49,000 tourists staying in 23,000 hotel rooms. However, tourism officials in Cancun are confident the week ending on March 27 could bring much higher rates.

Some entrepreneurs are counting on an inflow of 113,000 national and foreign visitors that could fork over $64 million during the weeklong festivities and shoot up occupancy to a staggering 95 percent, with local travelers taking up 30 percent of the total.