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We are grateful for the recognition we have received over the past 15 years.
2008 - Best project in natural resource management, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
2009 - Reference model in "The role of education for sustainable development in natural resource management, research and international cooperation", UNESCO, Univ Greiswald.
2009 - Reference model in "Conservation and Management of Biodiversity in Tropics", Univ. Göttingen, Germany.
2010 - National award for best project to "Promote Culture in Natural Protected Areas". CONANP.
2011 - Recognition for "Best nature tourism product in Mexico", SECTUR.
2012 - Reference model at the "International Development Design Summit", Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2013 - High impact social enterprise in Mexico, New Ventures, 2013.
2014 - present. Training Company and Evaluation Entity for Nature Oriented Tourist Guides based on NOM-09-TUR-2002 in Mexico.
2016 - Honorable Mention for Nature Conservation in Mexico, CONANP.
2018 - International Visitor Leadership Program, US Embassy.
2019 - Future Leaders Connect, for public policy design in Mexico, British Counsil.
2019 - Visionaris, high-impact social enterprise, UBS Bank, Switzerland.
2019 - CEMEX-TEC Community Entrepreneurship Award Finalists.
2020 - Silver Winner World Travel Market Latin America Responsible Tourism Award
2022 - Three Global Inspiring Tour Operators Award. Adventure Travel Trade Association.
2024 - Coordinators of the LATAM Responsible Tourism Recognition in the category of Biodiversity Conservation, World Travel Market
From the first time I was told about the #mujereslocalescambiosglobales campaign, I fell in love with the project. I followed with great curiosity each of the stories that La Mano del Mono was presenting, admiring what Doña Chenta, Dulce and Sofia are doing from their trenches, it is the turn of Cristal, a girl passionate about sharing the knowledge of the families of the Malinche National Park to travelers.
Cristal is part of the Nahua Yecan Yecan Biocultural Center, in the community of Ocotlán Tepatlaxco, in the municipality of Contla de Juan Cuamatzi, State of Tlaxcala. This is an entrepreneurial project in La Malinche National Park, which offers diverse experiences, ranging from traditional medicine to rural cuisine, whose protagonists are the agave and corn and seeks to exalt the Nahua Tlaxcala culture.
She has been working at the Center for about a year and a half, after finishing her degree in Biology. She wanted to focus on this type of project, around La Malinche Park, and the contact with the people and with nature made her integrate, because for her it was the purpose of her career, to integrate the natural and the social. Here you can feel welcome with the forest, with the land and its cultivation and with the medicinal plants that grow in these parts.
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Visiting Yecan Yecan is equal to a good taste in your mouth, it seeks to be an experience to recommend, although upon arrival it leaves some people a little skeptical, what the community guides can transmit makes you leave the place very happy.
