wilderone
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FONATUR says 11 marinas to open in May 06
Baja project's first marinas expected to open next year
'Quaint villages' seen as key to tourism plan
By Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITER ? San Diego Union Tribune
December 7, 2005
President Vicente Fox's administration expects to launch its most ambitious tourism development project next year with the opening of 11 linked
marinas on the Baja California peninsula and the Mexican mainland.
While government planners initially estimated the project would draw 50,000 boaters a year, they now say the figure will be closer to 10,000.
"We're not planning to create small Cancuns or Cabos. What we want is small, quaint villages," said John McCarthy, director general of Fonatur, the
Mexican government's tourism development and finance agency, during a stop in San Diego County.
McCarthy was in Coronado yesterday as the keynote speaker of a three-day conference on resort development in Mexico that ends today. Planned for 150
people, the event has drawn nearly twice that number; some people had to be turned away.
The conference, organized by the Baker & McKenzie law firm and the resort real estate firm Contact Development Corp., takes place amid growing
interest in the Baja California peninsula on the part of U.S. buyers and investors.
Participants include builders, developers, bankers, golf course designers and landscape architects. Presentations have ranged from legal aspects of
resort development to cross-cultural communication to finding financing.
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rpleger
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Sure.............
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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jerry
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Where are they?? going to be??
jerry and judi
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vandenberg
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Did they name them or are they just the old already existing ones??
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Diver
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I'm sitting here waiting for them to open so I can bring my expensive boat down and spend a fortuna in their marinas
Wonder if they will have power and water at the docks too ?
Maybe a water taxi for anchoring yachts ?
And security !! Lot's of it !!
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Bruce R Leech
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and maybe an In and Out Berger.
Bruce R Leech
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jerry
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it sounds like in and out but i dont think it has anything to do with a burger
jerry and judi
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bajarich
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All that and new beaches at Cancun too?
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