Mayaland is highly compromised in the practice of Sustainable Tourism as pioneer in the tourism industry in Mexico. In its beginnings; it promoted the practice of the Archaeological tourism at ancient Mayan sites of the Yucatan Peninsula since 1921, mainly in Chichen Itza and Uxmal, where our Resorts are located ever since.

The company always has been using environmental resources in their properties, which constitute a key element in tourism development, maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve natural and cultural heritage as well as the biodiversity at the Mayaland Resorts.

Mayaland respects and woks direct with the socio-cultural presence of the Mayan communities through this Direction of Cultural and Sustainable Tourism, conserving their environment and living cultural heritage and traditional values through the practice of Tourism.

We also contribute to inter-cultural understanding with our communities and help them to improve their quality of life through viable and permanent creation of programs of action with private and governmental authorities in order to support and benefit Mayan communities.

Most of these communities are home base of our employees and their families.

As a proud member of the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism we want to maintain a high level of tourist satisfaction and ensure a meaningful experience to our visitors, raising their awareness about sustainability issues and promoting responsible tourism practices in our valuable Mayan cultural Yucatan Peninsula.

At Yaxuna, a very important wood craft artisan community, Mayaland promotes among our visitors a Sustainable Tourism Tour that includes a visit to the artisan workshop at their homes, where visitors can watch and learn of the traditional techniques of wood carving Mayan motifs.

The visit includes a view to a Cenote "Well" and the Yamuna's Archeological Site.

Yaxuna is located at 22 kilometers from Chichen Itza (World Heritage Site declared by the UNESCO in 1988) and the Mayaland Resorts: "Mayaland Hotel & Bungalow" and "The Lodge at Chichen Itza".

At this community we have a permanent program to support the local Library with a permanent campaign of Book Collection to improve the quality of education for Yaxuna's present and future generations.

San Simon is a small Mayan community located at the North of the Santa Elena Municipality in the surrounding of the Uxmal Archeological Site (World Heritage Site declared by the UNESCO in 1996) adjacent to the location of the Mayaland Resort: "The Lodge at Uxmal" and the "hotel Hacienda Uxmal".

This community has a population estimated in 370 inhabitants of affirmative Mayan Legacy.

Mayaland in its commitments of support and benefit the quality of life of the adjacent communities where most of its employees live has a project of development supporting the creation of Communitarian harvest, Artisan workshops and the reestablishment of the Foot Ball court at this village of San Simon of low income resources.

This program is coordinated with the Government of the State of Yucatan and the local authorities.