Cancun powerhouse: Palace Resorts has built an empire of all-inclusive resorts along Mexico's Riviera Maya. (Cover Story: Hotels).(Brief Article)

Travel Agent, June, 2002 by Arellano, Luisa Esquiroz

Seemingly out of nowhere PALACE RESORTS has hit the Cancun regional market in full force. In just five years, a whirlwind of construction and expansion has propelled this fledgling resort company into a 4,763-room all-inclusive powerhouse, catering to a wide variety of markets, including golf, honeymoon and romance, spa, ecotourism, families, and meetings and incentives.

One of Cancun's pioneering companies, Palace was founded in the early 1980s by brothers Roberto and Jose Chapur of Merida, Yucatan, at a time when the now-famous resort destination had few rooms but lots of ...