The expansion completed in July 2010 includes a 17-story, luxury hotel with 297 rooms, with 40 suites.

He said it would include a new wing with 126 rooms, doubling the hotel's size.

The original resort included, along with the Pavilion, a three-story hotel with 200 rooms and a bathhouse.

The resort will include "a self-branded luxury hotel" with 1,200 rooms when it opens and a maximum of 2,000 rooms.

In the summer of 2008 the project was officially scaled back to include just one hotel tower with 1,900 rooms due to lack of financing.

The buildings found included the Norman doorway with its Victorian addition and three medieval rooms.

Last year's sales included 163 hotels with 150 or more rooms, up from 45 in 2002.

Living quarters are also included, with 30 rooms which are each named after a championship winning French club.

The first floor also included a mezzanine with fourteen small rooms.

Tourism infrastructure includes 67 hotels with just under 2,000 rooms, almost all location in the city of Palenque.