Cancun, QR. With an investment of 500 million dollars from the firm Park Holdings, two hotels were inaugurated yesterday in Tulum with a total of 1,084 rooms that will be operated by the Hilton chain.
These are the Hilton Tulum Riviera Maya lodging centers with 735 rooms and the Conrad Tulum Riviera Maya with 349; the first in all-inclusive mode and the second in European plan.
According to representatives of the Hilton chain, 3,000 direct jobs were generated during the construction of both properties, as well as another 3,500 indirect jobs.
This is the third hotel opened by Hilton this year in Quintana Roo, as the Hilton Garden Inn Cancun Airport opened on March 1, the first lodging center within the Cancun International Airport.
In December 2022, this same chain opened the Hilton Cancun All Inclusive Resort with 715 rooms, with an investment of 500 million dollars, just 16 kilometers from the airport and 30 kilometers from the Cancun Hotel Zone.
Executives of the chain then announced that in the course of 2022 the 350-room Conrad by Hilton and a 750-room Hilton Tulum would open, in addition to the completion of a 178-room Waldorf Astoria, which together will add another 600 million dollars. in investment and 1,278 rooms, additional to the hotel inaugurated this Tuesday.
Juan Corvinos, senior vice president of Development for the Caribbean and Latin America at Hilton, explained that they are the only operators of these new lodging centers, since the investments are made by Mexican capitals that are betting on Mexico with an important generation of jobs, since 400 new beds were opened at the Hilton Cancun, in addition to the more than 1,000 that will gradually open in Tulum.
In the case of the new Hilton Cancun All Inclusive, Waldorf Astoria, Conrad and Hilton Tulum, the investment corresponds to the El-Mann Group.
The businessman referred to Hilton Mexico as his fifth most important place both in terms of number of rooms and profitability, since they operate 80 hotels throughout the country.