By: glenn pero E-mail: gpero@hotmail.com Quintana Roo, Mexico has become an internationally acclaimed tourist development area over the past six years. This may be a difficult concept to grasp considering the states economic condition at the end of the 20th, and the first decade of the 21st century. The current status of a tourism haven was not easily accomplished. It took many years of cooperative tourism planning amongst the state, national government officials, and most importantly, the local communities of the areas being developed. In the early 1990’s, the country of Mexico was searching for untapped tourism resources. The purpose of this search was because