The executive director of the Association of Hotels & Restaurants, Pedro Garrido, was critical of the Ministry of Tourism for certain actions it is taking in the days previous to an expected change of command. He criticized the Ministry’s action in opening new tourist offices abroad, adopting promotional initiatives and beginning new services classifications. Mr Fernando Nuñez of the Ministry of Tourism defended the measures saying that the decisions are the result of a lot of work in the less than two years that Frank Jorge Elias has been the Minister.