Puerto Cortes, Cortes.
To guarantee the safety of national, international and local tourists in the summer season, the municipal authorities and the active forces of the municipality activated the committee of Safe Summer 2022.
The municipality of Puerto Cortes due to its proximity to San Pedro Sula and other municipalities is one of the most visited in summer, so its authorities are preparing to give visitors a good stay, they ensure that they maintain prevention measures once morest covid-19 in restaurants and beaches.
Diego Mendezrepresentative of the committee, said that work meetings will begin to organize and plan all the activities prior to Holy Week.
Méndez said that the main objective is to serve and guarantee the safety of all the people who visit them, this year because of its bastion in the municipality the committee was named as Allan David Ramos Molinain honor of the former mayor of the municipality.
the mayor Mary Louise Martell received in the municipality the authorities of the active forces that are integrated by the Firefighters, Red Cross, National Police, Armed Forcesamong other institutions and organizations.
On Holy Week Only the beaches of Puerto Cortés receive at least 500,000 national and foreign tourists, but due to the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 the number of visitors decreased. Last year they exceeded half a million, so they expect the same amount to arrive this year.
On the beaches there are always health personnel, the mayor’s office and other institutions handing out biosafety equipment such as masks, in businesses they carry out checks so that they have alcohol dispensing equipment for the disinfection of clients, as well as providing training and review of the Complete vaccination schedules for employees.
The authorities always recommend tourists to maintain distancing measures and join groups of family or friends.