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The Cancun Mexico Tourism Project
The Cancun Project was officially approved in 1969, but didn’t begin until January, 1970, when the first Infratur technicians arrived. The initial objectives of the project were to open up a road from Puerto Juarez to the island, design a Master Development Plan and build a provisional air strip (located in the area designated for city development, at the site of present-day Kabah Avenue, in front of the actual Ecological Park of the same name).
The Cancun Plan called for three items:
1) Build a tourism zone without permanent residential areas, like a tourism corridor with hotel installations, shopping centers, golf courses and marinas;
2) Build a residential zone for permanent residents. In other words, an integral city, in the northern part of the territorial reserve, with residential and commercial areas, roads, public buildings, schools, hospitals and markets;
3) Build an international airport to one side of the Cancun-Tulum highway (under construction at the time), on the mainland south of the island.
Mexico Travel August 24, 2006 12:20 PM | Cancun Mexico Windsurfing Scuba Diving