NewsWhore
11-17-2011, 02:00 PM
The National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores) is protesting at the government's failure to take responsibility by intervening to prevent vandalistic actions by transporters seeking to monopolize transport. While passenger and cargo transport is affected nationwide, Asonahores is specifically referring to problems experienced by hotels in choosing how to transport their employees and the inconvenience caused for tourists who have to witness situations that are detrimental to the country's image. Asonahores called on the Ministry of Tourism to intervene in the matter in a press release that is circulating. The National Business Council (Conep) recently questioned "the vandalistic actions by cargo and passenger transporters with the objective of preventing competition and free access to the transport market, in detriment to tourism and all transport users. Asonahores says it shares the same concern especially as it puts tourists at risk and affects the country's international image. The tourism organization said that too often transporters act violently to defend what they consider as their market when it is invaded by so-called "pirate" transporters, creating worrisome situations when tourists are obliged to switch vehicles.
Asonahores said that with the support of the government entities in charge of supervising this activity, the transporters declare they own and have exclusivity in tourist zones, creating situations that violate the law and the Constitution that prohibits the creation of monopolies, while setting prices at their whim because there is no free competition.
"A hotel, for example, cannot hire the transport service of its choice and cannot purchase buses to transport its employees, because it would have to face the organized bandits of the transporters that would attack these vehicles with the "complicit indifference of the authorities that instead of imposing the law sponsor mafia-type actions."
Asonahores called for free business and market in the transport business.
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Asonahores said that with the support of the government entities in charge of supervising this activity, the transporters declare they own and have exclusivity in tourist zones, creating situations that violate the law and the Constitution that prohibits the creation of monopolies, while setting prices at their whim because there is no free competition.
"A hotel, for example, cannot hire the transport service of its choice and cannot purchase buses to transport its employees, because it would have to face the organized bandits of the transporters that would attack these vehicles with the "complicit indifference of the authorities that instead of imposing the law sponsor mafia-type actions."
Asonahores called for free business and market in the transport business.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)