<P> After Edward Thompson in 1894 purchased the Hacienda Chichén, which included Chichen Itza, he received a constant stream of visitors . In 1910 he announced his intention to construct a hotel on his property, but abandoned those plans, probably because of the Mexican Revolution . </P> <P> In the early 1920s, a group of Yucatecans, led by writer / photographer Francisco Gomez Rul, began working toward expanding tourism to Yucatán . They urged Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto to build roads to the more famous monuments, including Chichen Itza . In 1923, Governor Carrillo Puerto officially opened the highway to Chichen Itza . Gomez Rul published one of the first guidebooks to Yucatán and the ruins . </P> <P> Gomez Rul's son - in - law, Fernando Barbachano Peon (a grandnephew of former Yucatán Governor Miguel Barbachano), started Yucatán's first official tourism business in the early 1920s . He began by meeting passengers who arrived by steamship at Progreso, the port north of Mérida, and persuading them to spend a week in Yucatán, after which they would catch the next steamship to their next destination . In his first year Barbachano Peon reportedly was only able to convince seven passengers to leave the ship and join him on a tour . In the mid-1920s Barbachano Peon persuaded Edward Thompson to sell 5 acres (20,000 m) next to Chichen for a hotel . In 1930, the Mayaland Hotel opened, just north of the Hacienda Chichén, which had been taken over by the Carnegie Institution . </P> <P> In 1944, Barbachano Peon purchased all of the Hacienda Chichén, including Chichen Itza, from the heirs of Edward Thompson . Around that same time the Carnegie Institution completed its work at Chichen Itza and abandoned the Hacienda Chichén, which Barbachano turned into another seasonal hotel . </P>

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