Public-Private-NGO Conservation Alliance Invests $100 Million in Mexico

Unsustainable tourism is also a growing threat. Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the Mesoamerican Reef, with diving and coastal tourism as the principal socio-economic drivers in the majority of sites in the region. The region has seen exponential growth of cruise ship tourism in recent years, bringing an estimated eight million tourists to Mesoamerica in 2008.