Fonatur
Mexico's national tourism development fund.
Fonatur was established through a public-trust contract on 29 March 1974. It develops tourism destinations and manages related assets, with Nacional Financiera acting as trustee.
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Fonatur is the Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo, a Mexican public trust for tourism development. Nacional Financiera acts as trustee. Its institutional work includes planning destinations, encouraging investment and managing tourism property and assets. This gives it a role in the physical development of places that receive visitors.
Its established projects include Cancún, Los Cabos, Ixtapa, Loreto and Huatulco. The fund's programme also addresses community participation and the development of tourism products beyond large coastal resorts. Those objectives concern how projects are planned and who benefits from them; they do not prove that planned outcomes have already been achieved. Fonatur's remit brings land, infrastructure, investment and local participation together within a public tourism-development institution.
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