Fig 1.
Where do tourists that visit Holbox and the ABT come from?.
A global map that shows the country of origin of tourists that visit Holbox and the ABT. Fig 1 the original idea is by NTRC and built with personal data and data results from tourists’ surveys collected in this research. SM created and designed the map.
Fig 2.
Social and economic events related to COVID-19 afflicted locals and tourists in Quintana Roo (QR) and Holbox.
Mexico’s health authorities implemented a national stoplight system in June 2020 to alert residents to the epidemiological risks and provide guidance on restrictions on certain activities. The traffic light system includes four colors: green, yellow, orange, and red. Green indicates a low risk of contagion, and all activities, including school, are allowed. Red indicates a maximum risk of contagion, and only essential economic activities will be allowed. Quintana Roo started a regional traffic light system for the northern (Lazaro Cardenas (where Holbox is located), Tulum, Solidaridad, Cozumel, Puerto Morelos, Benito Juarez, Isla Mujeres); and southern (Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Jose Maria Morelos, Bacalar, Othon P. Blanco) municipalities. The original idea and creation of the figure are by NTRC. Sources for Fig 1 [35, 48–53, 56, 59, 61, 86, 121–123].
Fig 3.
Holbox human population and available data for tourists’ numbers.
Fig 4.
Tourists that visited the state of Quintana Roo and revenues generated by these visitors.
Fig 5.
Specific annual numbers of tourist arrivals to the ABT could not be obtained. Source for the figure The World Bank [124].
Fig 6.
Bar charts depict tourists’ responses to the field survey.
(A) tourism negative environmental impacts; (B) tourism environmental impacts between islands and mainland; (C) tourists who consider themselves environmentally-conscious; (D) tourists who researched on their lodging, food choice and leisure activities before visiting the archipelago; (E) tourists who made decisions based on their environmental impact during vacation; (F) tourists who learned about local environmental issues during vacation.
Fig 7.
Bar charts depict tourists’ responses to the field survey.
(A) Holbox fisheries; (B) tourists’ expectations of consuming and eating seafood (C); (D) tourists who knew where the seafood came from; (E) tourists who would eat unsustainable seafood.
Fig 8.
(A) Heatmap of tourists" responses between Holbox and the ABT. (B) Bray-Curtis non-parametric analysis. A presence-absence matrix of tourists’ responses as descriptors and geographic sites as units of the analysis was used.
Fig 9.
Tourists´ knowledge about environmental issues on Holbox.
(A) Chart of tourist responses when prompted the question from whom they learned about local environmental issues on Holbox. (B) Categorization of comments that tourists listed when prompted with the follow-up question: If so, how/from whom did you learn this? In response to the statement, "So far during my stay on Holbox, I have learned about some of the local environmental issues" (n = 225). (C) Suggestions to increase tourists’ environmental knowledge on Holbox. (D) Consequences of absent tourists’ knowledge of environmental issues on Holbox.