APTC - ALIANZA PENINSULAR PARA EL TURISMO COMUNITARIO

The Peninsular Alliance for Community Tourism (APTC) seeks to strengthen tourism in rural communities, through the collaborative work of 24 social enterprises, made up of a total of 270 partners and partners originating from indigenous and peasant communities in the Yucatan Peninsula. The APTC integrates the efforts of three state community tourism networks in Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo and Yucatan.

This alliance arose in October 2016, when a group of leaders of community-based tourism organizations began to meet in different places in the Yucatan Peninsula (Calakmul in 2016, Tzucacab in 2017, Mérida in 2018 and Hampolol in 2019) in order to to discuss and plan common strategies to address problems shared by social enterprises.

The participating organizations are the Rural Tourism Council of Campeche with 7 social enterprises, the Community Tourism Network of the Mayan Zone of Quintana Roo under the trade name Caminos Sagrados, which brings together 8 social enterprises; and, Alternative Community Tourism known as Co'ox Mayab, in Yucatán, with 9 social enterprises.​