The Temazcal is the main ritual offered to our guests, only in groups, in the Mayan community of Muuch Xiimbal.
Our Temazcalero will be presented very soon in our blog, He is called “Fredi Coto”!
Our Temazcalero will be presented very soon in our blog, He is called “Fredi Coto”!
We will soon present Neysi Marin de la Cruz, entrepreneur and founder of the new cafeteria under construction at the entrance of Pueblito Selva Chemuyil.
We do everything with locals, travelers, adventurers, nomads and roamers, we have redefined a way of life that naturally feeds on the exceptional richness of the Riviera Maya.
The concept of ecotourism actually covers everything we do and our different jobs and activities. We stand out clearly from mass and volume tourism, which has allowed tourism to be the largest economic sector in the world. For us, ecotourism is becoming a powerful means of promoting biodiversity, unlike mass tourism, which degrades natural environments by integrating an ethical and eco-citizen dimension.
In addition, the association of the principles of ecotourism with those of sustainable development (and therefore of nature conservation) have become closely linked given the importance they take in the strategies and actions of many organizations. international organizations (UN, NGOs, Governments and their agencies ..).
Some fear drifts because of the often rather flexible definition of ecotourism or lack of indicators and criteria for this relatively new field (although naturalistic tourism, exploration and adventure has existed for several centuries). They argue that ecotourism too often justifies artificially imposed hotels or structures or placed in the midst of beautiful landscapes, to the detriment of local ecosystems. According to them, ecotourism must above all make people aware of the beauty and fragility of nature. Thus, some operators do not hesitate to propose routes in 4×4, swimming pools and air conditioning without worries of their deferred impact on the fauna and the flora or the local natural resources. A growing number of air and cruise journeys carry passengers with a heavy ecological footprint to the Arctic or Antarctic to help them discover the beauty of the landscape and the threat posed by global warming, but by contributing to it. This kind of activities sometimes called Greenwashing by industry professionals, hides a conventional mass tourism presented as “green”.
It has often been linked first of all to a tourism of discovery or adventure, very oriented towards the tropical countries, the richest in biodiversity.
There is also a tendency for local tourism, based on nearby natural resources and in particular on nature reserves and forests.
The United States is considered to be the main reservoir of ecotourism (more than 5 million people each year). The majority of other ecotourists come from Europe and the elite of some southern countries. It would be wrong, however, to believe that ecotourism is reserved for developing countries. This tourism is equally suited to developed countries such as France, a position defended by the French Ecotourism Association since 2005, as well as other national associations of ecotourism in Europe and Australia.
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