How Are Cancun Hotels Dealing With Swine Flu?
A very, very interesting article was printed by the UK Telegraph today: apparently, Heidi and Spencer among only a handful of people traipsing around Mexico resorts wearing face masks to protect themselves from swine flu. Hmm.
According to the article, many tourists and hotel guests down in the Cancun area are being met with hotels full of seemingly unconcerned staff and other holidaygoers who seem equally unconcerned (i.e., people are still hitting up nightclubs and whatnot). Per the Telegraph:
As The Daily Telegraph discovered, questions to hotel workers about the virus are generally simply ignored as if they haven't been heard or, if pursued, countered with the claim that it hasn't yet reached Cancun.
Mike Heelan, 29, a recruitment consultant from Limerick, Ireland, said: "I've been thinking that the first time I see a mask here, I'm out. But everyone's so blasé here. We're all in a bubble, thinking it's just happening somewhere else."
He said that when he once asked a concierge at a $288-a-night hotel about the bag of masks on his desk, he quickly moved them under a table and said they were for staff.
Oh goodness. Now, remember: a pretty good deal of tourists who fell sick with swine flu were vacations in Cancun. But it appears that many hotel workers are answering questions fairly nonchalantly, some even insisting that the threat has not yet reached Cancun. Even so, one tourist the Times interviewed said she had only seen face masks on the chefs at the nearby Hard Rock Cafe and on a few of her hotel's housekeepers.
If you've got a minute, cruise on over to the Telegraph to read the full article — pretty interesting, especially considering that this could be either be attributed to the media kind of overblowing this or to hoteliers in the region instructing their staffers to downplay the threat in order to curb the devastating impact on revenue.
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