In researching environmental issues and tourism in Mexico, I find myself stumped on the most basic questions. Or I have some answers, but I'd like to double check them. So I'm offering a public quiz! These are the issues that will be incorporated in the guidebook I'm writing on environmental tourism.
This may be an interesting exercise - In January, 1997 I posted this list on ELAN and will later on the Eco Travels in the Americas website (www.planeta.com). Answers will also be posted online - and updated throughout 1997. In most of the questions that follow, I think the answers will depend on source and point of view.
This page is part of the Planeta.com website (http://www.planeta.com),
which has a variety of information on environmental conservation and nature-based tourism in
Mexico. For more information about
nature travel in Mexico, be sure to take a look at the guidebook, Mexico: Adventures in Nature
by Ron Mader.
Answers are on a separate page.
Ron Mader, Webhost
Planeta.com
What place does Mexico have in total world tourism? How successful is the country in comparison to other "developing" countries?
Are there any figures at all for ecotourism or environmental tourism?
How reliable are the figures?
How are local environmental travel providers promoted by the tourism secretariat (SECTUR)?
Which areas does the environmental secretariat (SEMARNAP) promote for environmental tourism? What are the best means to visit these areas?
Are there independent organizations or associations that promote environmental tourism?
What are the best means of financing environmental tourism?
Is the AMTAVE association helpful to either ecotravelers or to service providers?
What are interesting state or local environmental tourism projects?
Are there any local birding or rafting tourism projects?
What is the annual rate of topsoil loss?
Where are the botanical gardens?
Are mangroves ever a tourism attraction?
Which areas that currently are not officially protected should receive that designation?
What are the Ford, MacArthur and Friderich Ebert Foundations projects/budgets for environmental conservation and protection?
What are Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy and Greenpeace projects/budgets for environmental conservation and protection?
Why don't the international groups work together or in the same area? Should they?
What are the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) projects in Mexico?
Are there other foundation/environmental group projects in Mexico?
Who are foundations and groups accountable to?
What is the figure on a daily basis?
How much of Mexico City's water comes from acquifers and how much is pumped uphill?
Do international environmental groups assist, bully or coopt Mexican environmental groups?
Should NGOs be more transparent and make their budgets open to the public?
What is the federal-state relation in park management?
Are there radio programs that discuss environmental issues?
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