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**Key players in Ecotourism and Responsible Travel**
http://www.cdi.gob.mx/ecoturismo/documentos.html
 * CDI** – Federal Government body for the promotion of the development of 'indígena' communities. This organization has taken on ecotourism as a major strategy, however, has invested far more in group creation and infrastructure (especially cabañas in communities), than in training or promotion. A large number of the Chiapas community ecotourism groups have received finance from them usually copying the same basic model.

http://www.sendasur.com
 * SENDASUR** – an alliance of some of these community ecotourism groups and a few local agencies, apparently with mostly a promotion function.

http://www.turismochiapas.gob.mx
 * SECTUR** - Chiapas state government Tourism Secretariat. Among other functions it promotes the regions and to some extent individual projects, and has organized events

http://www.prodesis.chiapas.gob.mx
 * PRODESIS ("Desarrollo Social Integrado y Sostenible, Chiapas, México" = Sustainable and Socially Integrated Development of Chiapas Mexico)** is a European Union – Mexico Government cooperation agreement and also regards ecotourism as major strategy especially in the Lacandon Forest (Eastern part of Chiapas). They have done training and diagnostics – often with groups where CDI has also been active.

http://www.cbmm.gob.mx
 * Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano**: Aims at sustainable use of resources and biodiversity issues, and also started using ecotourism as strategy.

Several other Federal Government structures have created guidelines for ecotourism and also offer finance for infrastructure and training (sometimes in coordination, sometimes individually) often through consultants. SECTUR (National Tourism Secretariat) SEMARNAT (National Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat) CONANP (National Commission for Natural Protected Areas) – several groups are in or adjacent to federally declared Protected Areas CONAFOR (Forestry Commission), among others through PROCYMAF (community forest Programme)

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