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In the Tourist Services Regulations of this mayor’s office, limits on local commerce are not contemplated, while in other areas they began price reviews.
Omar Montalvo
Mexico City. – The mayor’s office Xochimilco that governs Circe Camachorecognizes that the canals that cross the chinampera area are one of the most visited tourist areas, but the food sale It is one of the commercial activities that escape the regulations that the demarcation must enforce and visitors demand the sale of an order of tacos for up to 350 pesos. These excessive prices are similar to those in Tulum, for which federal authorities began operations to prevent commercial abuses.
Since 2020 in the mayor’s office Xochimilco There is a regulation for the Regulation of Tourist Services. In the section of activities allowed in the Canal Zone of Lake Xochimilco, the document mentions food stalls, boats that sell food and snacks. The specifications of this commercial work only mention load limits, as well as the use of gas or braceros, but the regulation does not address a price cap on the sale of food, which has caused each merchant to set excessive prices.
The work of eloteros, sweets and fruit sellers is in the same situation. In the case of soft drink and beer sellers, the regulation establishes that these must be delivered in closed containers, but prepared soft drinks and micheladas are usually sold in disposable cups.
Some of the prices offered in the channels are orders of four tacos for 350 pesos, snacks such as quesadillas around 130 pesos, while the order of sopes, tlacoyos and gorditas reaches 180 pesos; bags of sweets such as wafers cost 250 pesos; and the liter of pulque reaches up to 200 pesos.
The regulation began due to accidents in the trajinerasbut without these improving, the document focused on a passenger limit and the mayor’s office maintains on its website that the trajinera ride per hour should not exceed 750 pesos.
Food prices on canals Xochimilco They are compared to those of Tulum. In recent days, this tourist site was the subject of operations by the Federal Consumer Prosecutor’s Office (Profeco) due to excessive prices, since foods such as hamburgers were offered between 250 and 400 pesos, tacos for 306 pesos on average, and the order of quesadillas ranged between 120 and 290 pesos.