Cancun Hotels Wade Through Heat Dome With Intermittent Power
- Hotel association says daily outages are unsustainable
- Losses amount to $30 million in past days, businessman says
Cozumel Chankanaab National Park near Cancun, Mexico. Photographer: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images
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Hotels in Mexico’s Cancun and surrounding resorts are wading through a record-breaking heat wave with intermittent power that is at times leaving tourists and locals without air conditioning and fresh water.
Towns in northern Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, have been experiencing daily outages that have also led to interruptions in fresh water supply that relies on high voltage electric power, a hotel association said in a statement Thursday.