Category Archives: Eco Travel


Watch your step.  Ecotourism means more than just leaving a footprint.

Watch your step. Ecotourism means more than just leaving a footprint.

Guest Author: Brett Acker – Eco Yucatan Tours.   Ecotourism, or Sustainable Tourism is defined by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) as “Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well being of local people.” Local People. Indigenous People. The name given to the original peoples of a land, or a region. They were there first. They adapted to their land,…

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Eco Building off the Grid

Eco Building off the Grid

Guest Author: Brett Acker – Eco Yucatan Tours.   Yucatan’s eco building off grid projects explained The Yucatan of Mexico is a peninsula in the Caribbean Sea, composed greatly of limestone. It is home to the Mayan Culture of Mexico. Our ancestors, the native people of any given land, are the original Eco Builders of their region. Here, Now, in the Yucatan, conscious sustainable eco…

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