[—]The president of the Association of Hotels and Tourism Projects of the East Zone, Ernesto Veloz, questioned yesterday that despite the danger that has the beach Macao, Bavaro, where four tourists drowned on Sunday, do not have a monitoring service .
In this regard, he demanded of the authorities, is the Ministry of Tourism or the mayor of the municipality, establish a permanent facility to avoid unfortunate cases.
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Veloz recalls that on the beach Macao many people have died, mostly Dominicans. «What happens is that it is a very large beach, and has very dangerous areas underflow and dramatically quieter side, and it is impossible for us to control it.» Estimated at about two kilometers extension of the beach, frequented by hundreds of vacationers each week.
Complains that there is no permanent monitoring, as in the days of Holy Week. Besides signaling, who has not, the hotel aims to at least two control towers, and states that if the mayor Tourism and undertake tourism sector is willing to cooperate, but they alone can not undertake the supervision .
Both Veloz, as executive vice president of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants, Arturo Villanueva, defended the freedom of tourists to leave the hotel and visit the places they consider.
Just advocates maintaining control in the pool areas hotels, where have lifeguards customer service. «The beach theme is very difficult because you do not have total control of who bathes and goes far, there are no limits. There are hotels where he became signaling buoys, limiting the area of bathers, but depends on the economy, «said Villanueva.
States that every visitor is directed to the places that you can visit and forecasts to be taken.
Tragedy
On Sunday four vacationers from the Republic of Kenya drowned in the aforementioned beach, when three of them tried to save his companion reportedly offered by the authorities. The tourists were identified as (K)Cushs Patel, 31, (K)Cajal Patel, also 31; Shivang Patel and Yay(i) Ramanbhi Jayendra Patel, 32 years. According Veloz, tourists left alone in a car on a tour of the beach, which had been visited on another occasion by one of the group who wanted to share the experience with peers.
