Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA, Honduras
- 1. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, Honduras R.J. Payne Lakehead University Ocean Management Research Network Conference University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario October 21 – 24, 2009
- 2. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Background The MPA
- 4. The Agencies Three Tourism Development Cases
- 7. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Background The MPA Cayo Menor, Cayo Mejor and 13 smaller coral cays; Area: 489.5 sq. kms Established 1993, by off-shore NGOs; under Honduras, 2002; HCRF manages until 2013
- 8. Management plan, 2004: find economic activities for local people
- 9. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Background The Garifuna People Descendents of slaves brought from Africa
- 10. Culturally different from other Hondurans; economically disadvantaged
- 11. Largely dependent on subsistence fishing for their livelihoods
- 12. Most affected by MPA establishment
- 13. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Background The Agencies Honduran Coral Reef Foundation (cayoscochinos.org) CCMPA manager Operation Wallacea (opwall.com) UK conservation organization; proponent of co-operative development model Groupo de Apoyo al Desarollo (GAD) Local capacity building NGO Nature Conservancy, WWF Junior partners
- 14. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Three Tourism Development Cases Restaurant and Accommodation on Chachauate Cay 1 st development
- 15. Four rooms
- 16. Tourism operators from La Ceiba stop off at Chachauate
- 17. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Three Tourism Development Cases Restaurant and Accommodation at East End, Cochinos Mejor 2 nd development
- 18. 1 large room (dormitory style)
- 19. restaurant
- 20. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Three Tourism Development Cases Rio Esteban Dive and Eco-Centre Proposed
- 21. Location
- 22. Finance
- 23. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA Emerging Issues Capacity building: GAD's role
- 24. Institutional Strengthening: Co-operative principles and operation
- 25. Marketing: Promotion: e.g., Lonely Planet
- 26. Market segments: backpacker -> ecotourist Effectiveness: OpWall's role (undergraduate and
- 28. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA End/Fin
- 29. Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA References Bown, N., 2007. Field Season Report 2007: Socioeconomic and Governance Objectives of the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area (CCMPA) Management Plan . Newcastle, UK: Operation Wallacea. Brondo, K. and Woods, L., 2007. Garifuna land rights and ecotourism as economic development in Honduras’ Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology , 3 (1), pp. 2-18. Clifton, J., 2003. Prospects for co-management in Indonesia’s marine protected areas. Marine Policy 27 , pp. 389–395. Key, C., 2002. The political economy of the transition from fishing to tourism, in Placencia, Belize. International Review of Modern Sociology, 30 , (1), pp. 1-17. Wiskerke, J., Bock, B., Stuiver, M. and Renting, H., Environmental co-operatives as a new mode of rural governance. NJAS – Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 51 , (1-2), pp. 9-25.