Sectur starts decentralization process towards Chetumal, Quintana Roo

The Secretary of Tourism of the Government of Mexico, Miguel Torruco Marqués, formally initiated the start-up process for the decentralization of the Tourism Secretariat to the city of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, with the transfer of the Office of the Undersecretary of Planning and Tourism Policy of dependency.

Torruco Marqués said that this act is in compliance with the instructions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to begin the construction of a new form of government.

In the conception of the new government, said the federal official, regional development is a fundamental factor to achieve the well-being of the regions, localities and families that inhabit them.

"Mexico is living a new time, a time of changes and transformations for the good of the Republic, its regions and its inhabitants," he said.

Therefore, he added, the decentralization of the Sectur to Chetumal, capital of the state of Quintana Roo, has the purpose of contributing to a more dynamic, balanced and permanent economic, social and cultural growth.

This decision, recalled Miguel Torruco, is aimed at perfecting our institutions and, at the same time, that the institutions serve the general purposes of development of the country and its regions.

In the company of the governor of the entity, Carlos Joaquín González, the head of the Sectur said that the decentralization of the Ministry of Tourism is a challenge, but at the same time a great opportunity that provides the wealth of this city and this state to flourish the institutions and boost development.

During the event, it was detailed that the deconcentration of the Sectur will consist of three stages. The first, called startup, involves the transfer to Chetumal of the Undersecretariat of Planning and Tourism Policy, under the charge of Simón Levy Dabbah.

The second: Transition offices, in which the general directorates will gradually be incorporated and the third stage will begin to conclude with the total decentralization process, where the Secretariat of Tourism installed in this city carries out its government functions.

It will be a gradual process that allows an orderly, efficient decentralization, without interruption of the services and that guarantees the conditions and rights of the workers, to respond to the administrative and development needs.

The transition offices will be located in the Business Center of the Chetumal Convention Center and there will gradually integrate other areas of the Sectur that will be settled in the Miscegenation Museum, a building known as the Mega Sculpture.

On the other hand, the governor of the entity, Carlos Joaquín González, welcomed the head of the Sectur and promised to carry out a joint work now that the Ministry of Tourism arrives at Chetumal.

He said he is working in coordination with Secretary Miguel Torruco to ensure that decentralization is carried out in an orderly manner, so that they have a space where they can work comfortably and trusted that this process of deconcentration will help to boost the economic activity of the entity. .

The start-up of the decentralization of the Federal Ministry of Tourism was witnessed by the Secretary of the Government of Quintana Roo, Francisco López Mena; Marisol Vanegas, Secretary of Tourism of the entity; and Otoniel Segoviano, municipal president of Othón P. Blanco; the civil servants of Sectur: the undersecretary Simón Levy; the head of the Office of the Secretary of Tourism, Carlos Márquez; the head of the Administration and Finance Unit, Amaranta Arroyo; and Alejandro Aguilera, general director of Sectoral Information Integration; besides businessmen, union leaders and the media, among others.