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Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, Honduras

R.J. PayneLakehead University

Ocean Management Research Network ConferenceUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa, OntarioOctober 21 24, 2009

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

BackgroundThe MPA

The Garifuna People

The Agencies

Three Tourism Development Cases

Emerging Issues

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

Background

The MPACayo 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

Management plan, 2004: find economic activities for local people

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

BackgroundThe Garifuna People

Descendents of slaves brought from Africa

Culturally different from other Hondurans; economically disadvantaged

Largely dependent on subsistence fishing for their livelihoods

Most affected by MPA establishment

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

BackgroundThe AgenciesHonduran 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, WWFJunior partners

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

Three Tourism Development CasesRestaurant and Accommodation on Chachauate Cay1st development

Four rooms

Tourism operators from La Ceiba stop off at Chachauate

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

Three Tourism Development CasesRestaurant and Accommodation at East End, Cochinos Mejor2nd development

1 large room (dormitory style)

restaurant

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

Three Tourism Development CasesRio Esteban Dive and Eco-CentreProposed

Location

Finance

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

Emerging IssuesCapacity building: GAD's role

Institutional Strengthening: Co-operative principles and operation

Marketing: Promotion: e.g., Lonely Planet

Market segments: backpacker ecotourist

Effectiveness: OpWall's role (undergraduate and graduate students)

Tourism and Local Benefits in the Cayos Cochinos MPA

End/Fin

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 Indonesias marine protected areas. Marine Policy 27, pp. 389395.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.

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