In partnership with Amigos de Sian Ka’an and the Coral Reef Alliance

MARTI’s vision is to see tourism to see tourism become a force for biodiversity become a force for biodiversity conservationconservation and sustainable

community development in the Mesoamerican Reef Ecoregion.

CI’s Approach

MARTI is bringing about profound landscape and seascape changes by working at scale and by engaging a

network of strategic change agents and leaders on the ground.

Project Goals

Engage key sectors of the tourism industry – hotels, hotels, tour operators and cruise tour operators and cruise

lineslines – to significantly reduce the industry’s

environmental footprint and maximize its contributions

to the protection of the Mesoamerican Reef.

The Challenges

Marine habitat degradation

Water pollution

Coastal ecosystem destruction

Marine Habitat Degradation

MARTI is working with governments, cruise lines, private

sector and civil society to improve destination-level management of

cruise ship visitation.Signing the Cozumel Declaration

January 2008

Results CI facilitated a series of participatory

planning workshops, bringing together for bringing together for the first time everthe first time ever key cruise tourism stakeholders to define high priority issues related to cruise ship visitation, and recommendations for addressing these issues through collective actioncollective action.

Outcomes

1. Cozumel Declaration

2. Action Plan for the Shared Stewardship of Cozumel’s Natural Heritage

3. Joint implementation of three ‘quick-win’ conservation projects

www.mesoamericanreef.org

www.conservation.orgwww.celb.org

www.amigosdesiankaan.orgwww.coral.org