Thanks to the Mexican Tourism Board (MTB) you can now visit Mexico through your iPhone, the application provides nationwide coverage with information on all the states of the country.

Among the information available through the Mexico Guide application are sections on Where to go… Activities… News… About Mexico… Weather and Videos, including the countries 27 top tourist destinations.

Destination information includes hotels and restaurants, with a map option and reservations system, as well as photos, and is available in both Spanish and English-language versions, and best of all, the application is free and downloadable here!

The application, created by the MTB is compatible with iPod touch and iPad and requires iOS 3.1, or later, and uses just 9.6 MB of your memory.

Sustainable tourism in Mexico has recently seen some interesting initiatives for this niche, one definately worth watching. The latest ‘noteworthy’ event is the coming together of the Mexican Tourism Board (MTB) and Green Living Project™ (GLP), a broadcast-media network that covers the advance of sustainability projects around the globe. The video above is a documentary on sustainable tourism in the Andes.

At the moment, documentary film highlighting 6 sustainable tourism projects in the Republic’s southeastern states of Quintana Roo, Yucatan; Chiapas and Oaxaca, is being carried out by the partnership ‘in preparation’ for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16), the first full meeting since the Copenhagen talks -Literally!- and will open its doors on Nov. 29^th and continue until Dec.10^th.

The Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC) was the norm used when deciding which of the many eligible, tourism-related sustainable projects in the country were to be chosen for the filming by the MTB and its partners: Rainforest Alliance, Conservation International and Sustainable Travel International, along with many others.

According to Denia del Valle, Sustainable Tourism Program Manager (Mesoamerica) for Rainforest Alliance, the idea is “to provide the general public, government officials and other key stakeholders with information on the work we are doing with tourism businesses committed to sustainable principles in Mexico,” initially within the confines of the UN climate change conference, Cancun.

For his part, Rob Holmes, Founder and President of GLP, commented that “Showcasing these projects and destinations at the UN Climate Change Conference this fall will be an excellent way for everyone involved to support, promote, and celebrate the importance and benefits of sustainable tourism in relation to tourism and climate change.”

For more info, take a visit to www.greenlivingproject.com

Interested in GLP Membership? Get in touch with  Program Manager, Jenny Ersbak:
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