Vallarta Remains As a Strategic Destination for the GAP

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Puerto Vallarta remains as a strategic destination for the Pacific Airport Group (GAP or Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico), said its general manager Mohino Fernando Bosque, who noted that this destination will certainly recover what it once was.

"We have two tourist destinations, this is the traditional one since many years, which has suffered difficult times, but it looks like we are overcoming them with the help and collaboration of all the stakeholders in the tourism sector."

In this regard, he said that they have a tourist destination which is Cabos, that has the peculiarity that it became fashionable in recent years and is working very well, in such manner that it requires less attention than Puerto Vallarta.

Bosque Mohino, said that Puerto Vallarta is receiving the attention that it needs, "within our 12 airports, any new initiative, which involves improving the airport concept, is first implemented in Vallarta".

He assured that it is not a pilot, but it has the intention that the Diaz Ordaz heads the service concept of GAP airport, for which the program of "customer service" has been implemented since this year, of which it is a pioneer.

At the same time, a certification is sought, which will make it the first airport in the group to be certified, this according to Annex 14 of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

He also stated, it seeks to implement programs that are directed for example, to operational security systems, in which it is also the first airport.

"What I mean by this is that for the Pacific Airport Group, Vallarta is the airport that is most worthy of attention of all."

With regard to whether there is any recommendation for the tourism sector in order to carry a boom to Puerto Vallarta like the one in Cabos, the CEO of GAP added that what happens when a destination becomes popular and the word spreads to others, is that everyone wants to go to that destination until it consolidates and it is positioned at one level.

In such manner that the conclusions and recommendations arising from the experience of Cabos for Puerto Vallarta, is that work needs to be done in an integrated and joint way by all sectors, "all for one, all working with the same approach, collaborating and contributing each of their resources and knowledge".

What he mentioned in Puerto Vallarta has already begun to give and nowadays you can watch entrepreneurs, hoteliers, officers, agents and in general everyone is focused on regaining what in other times was fate.

Finally, Fernando Bosque Mohio said that Puerto Vallarta has lost between 400 and 500 thousand international passengers per year, which are partly covered with domestic passengers, however he insisted that "what we are looking for is to recover those levels that we had six or seven years ago".

[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/08/26/vallarta-se-mantiene-como-destino-estrategico-para-el-gap/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]