Acapulco Guerrero. The Secretary of the Navy is getting ready to operate flights and ferry services to the Marías Islands as part of the tourist offer that seeks to develop in the destination, after its closure as a prison complex in 2019.
The tourism secretary, Miguel Torruco Marqués, explained that the flights will be carried out with a plane that was previously part of the Pemex fleet.
"It (the plane) has already been adapted to fly to the Marías Islands, which continues to be an area that is protected by the Mexican Navy," said the head of the Ministry of Tourism (Sectur) during the cutting of the ribbon of the 46 edition of the Tourist Tianguis.
The flight itineraries would be announced in the short term and they are expected to start operating this year.
Similarly, the Navy will also operate two ferries to the Islas Marías from San Blas, in Nayarit, and Mazatlán, in Sinaloa.
In this regard, the secretary of tourism ruled out that the ferries will be operated by Grupo Vidanta, which had been mentioned as one of the companies potentially interested in the Islas Marías.
"No, Vidanta has never been there," Torruco said of the company founded by Daniel Chávez, who also serves as honorary supervisor of the Mayan Train.
