PLAYA DEL CARMEN - Local officials report that the Riviera Maya will have approximately 35,000 hotel rooms in by the middle of 2007. In September of 2006, it had 29,462, with 31,400 expected in operation by December 31, 2006.
This marks the second most rooms ever added to the region's inventory, just after 1998, with more than 5,000 rooms were constructed.
The Riviera Maya is on the cusp of passing Cancun (which has around 30,000 rooms) as the largest largest destination in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which also makes it one of the nation's largest.
Tourism officials forecast that the region will finish with 2,821,000 visitors in 2006, with an average hotel occupancy rate of 78%.
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