When Greed Wins, Zihuatanejo Loses

The poorer tourists ? Do you mean Mexican .
Just because working people in the rest of North America have made wise choices so they can afford to travel when work is done does no mean they are affluent

I fear you confuse yourself by making erroneous assumptions.

Because more affluent Mexican and foreign tourists now come in fewer numbers, the local, state and federal governments try to maquillar reality and justify their overpaid positions and simulated work by pointing to the increased numbers of warm bodies arriving here, mostly by bus, ignoring their decreased purchasing power that has caused the closing of many local businesses who have been in operation for decades. Even the Ixtapa hotels owned by large corporations have resorted to lowering their room rates to below what Zihuatanejo hotels can afford to since the Zihuatanejo hotels can't recover their losses by slick accounting practices using profits from other destinations. So whatever benefit should have come to Zihuatanejo via the less affluent tourists is negated by the unfair practices of the Ixtapa all-included hotels.