Riviera Maya Ecotourism Project Receives Award eTurboNews
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Alltournative 2013 (AlltournativeMexico)

For twelve consecutive years, the Skal International “Sustainable Development in Tourism” Awards have been presented during the Opening Ceremony of its annual World Congress. Skal recently closed its 74th World Congress aboard the Carnival Glory, the first time this yearly event took place on a cruise ship. This year, Alltournative won an award in the category of General Countryside.

Alltournative is a Mexican ecotourism project born in 1999 designed to create social and ecological conditions to promote sustainable development. At that time the Riviera Maya was a beach tourist destination but did not include one of the greatest treasures of this region: the Maya culture legacy.

Isolated in the jungle, Maya communities were on the brink of selling off their natural heritage in the face of an extremely bleak economic future. However, thanks to an enormous creative effort on the part of both parties the groundwork was laid for what today has become a recognized success story in practical sustainable development. The inhabitants of the region have found with ecotourism an economic activity that preserves their natural resources and their culture.

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