Totonal Viajes
Tour Operator started in 2010
Locally Owned with 85% local staff
Multi-Day Tours, Custom Trips
Activities: Chocolate Making, Coffee Farm, Community Visit, Cooking Class, Eco-tourism, Educational Program, Getting to Know Locals, Hiking, Historical Sites, Horseback Riding, Kayaking, Local Festival, Making Crafts, Music, Rafting, Backpacking, Art, Scuba Diving, Show/Performance, Snorkeling, Storytelling
Discover the beautiful lesser-known regions of Mexico as well as some wonderful local initiatives that maintain ancestral customs.
Totonal offers unique tours that give you the chance to interact with the local community, who are proud to open the doors to their world and show you their history and culture: artisans, rituals, gastronomy, amazing nature, and a good dose of warmth are the main characteristics of these experiences.
This will enable you to understand the authentic and varied culture of Mexico from the different regions visited, and the great spirituality of its inhabitants, who have great love for Mother Earth. Keeping an open mind will allow you to better learn from the wisdom of your hosts and amplify the experience enormously!
Lokal Travel Badges
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Community
Totonal promotes the consumption of local produce, where consumable goods are bought from local producers. Their hosts are leaders and guides from the communities. Additionally, Totonal works very closely with cooperatives, mostly composed of women. In order for the communities to survive independently, counseling and support with regards to their promotional strategy is an important part of Totonal's offer.
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Environment
They work mainly in areas of awareness and training, both for travelers and for those involved in tourism management and local hosts. They train them in order to foster tourism activities that are more responsible, equitable and as fair as possible, which includes environmental management.
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Culture
Totonal has worked with the National Commission of Indigenous Peoples, offering them counselling about the coordination of several cooperatives of the Southern part of the Veracruz State, in order to create tourist products that give visibility to the cultural and natural resources of the region. In each circuit of the tours they create, they make sure that the local culture is not folklorized.