Carmelita is a traditional community from Petén that has been dedicated to the responsible extraction of chewing gum, xate and other forest products for many years. In 1998, the Cooperativa Integral de Comercialización Carmelita R.L. (Integral Cooperative for Commercialization) arose, a local organization in charge of the conservation and management of the Community Forestry Concession of Carmelita. Nowadays, the Carmelita Cooperative performs various works within the community, making sustainable management of resources, in activities such as:
Cooperativa Carmelita through its activities of sustainable management of natural and cultural resources, consolidates communication, management, administration, governance, leadership and empowerment based on gender equity of its members.
To be a cooperative consolidated through empowerment, where their partners are involved in the strategic aspects of the organization, complying with the fundamental principles of cooperativism and acquired contractual commitments, with the recognition of governmental and non-governmental entities.
The Community Tourism Unit of the Carmelita Cooperative was integrated and organized to responsibly promote the sustainable tourism activities of quality, contributing to the socioeconomic development of the community and ensuring the conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the area, for the well-being for future generations.
By contracting the tourism services of the Cooperativa Carmelita (Carmelita Cooperative) you are contributing to the economy of the families of the community that work in an organized way through the Cooperative, a project which benefits to more than 85% of the community, partners and non-members, and the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage that we have protected for generations.
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