Riviera Maya, Q.R. — A great year is believed in store for the state of Quintana Roo says Eugenio Segura Vázquez, head of the Ministry of Finance and Planning (Sefiplan).
Segura Vázquez says this year, Quintana Roo will be the most connected in all of Mexico thanks to the Maya Train and its four international airports.
In the midst of this total recovery process, referring to the covid-19 months, 2024 looks like a year of great opportunities, he says.
“Quintana Roo will be the most connected state in Mexico,” he commented saying that the Maya Train, once complete in early 2024, will connect Quintana Roo with the entire southeast. He also noted the cruise ship ports of Cozumel and Mahahual as being the most important around the country.
Segura Vázquez pointed out that as of December 2023, Quintana Roo has four international airports, Cancún, Cozumel, Chetumal and now Tulum.
“This is going to help us a lot, not only to diversify tourism, which is also part of this government’s vision, but also other types of markets and industries.” For agriculture, for example, he says these connections can help the communities in Felipe Carrillo Puerto and José María Morelos.
Commerce is another opportunity since the Maya Train runs through five states. He mentioned that the Tren Maya project was constructed not only to transport passengers, but also cargo.
“This connectivity will allow numerous other companies to do business here that could not before. Not only tourist companies, but also industrial, industrial agricultural and commercial companies. It is going to be a development that will expand in the coming years,” he said.
Segura Vázquez says that the State Government is aware that high connectivity must go hand-in-hand with certainty if it wants to attract more investments. He says the government has well-defined priorities for 2024.
“2024 will be a great year because we will have more than 3.5 billion pesos invested by the state. That does not include any federal projects or the Maya Train or the Nichupté Bridge or the Tulum International Airport, this is only state. Three and a half billion pesos that we will be allocating to the 11 municipalities,” he says.
He explained that due to the tightening of public spending during 2023, the state government has been able to expand the state investment fund from 800 million pesos, which was allocated in the previous 2022 administration, to 3.5 billion for 2024.
Other state projects for 2024, he said, will include better trained and paid police officers, social well-being programs and an improved state credit rating, which will help attract more investments.
