Knowra Cancún Cancún Cancún is a city in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Caribbean coast. Its resort zone, built on a barrier island, is known for beaches and large-scale tourism.
Cancún International Airport : An international airport serving Cancún and the surrounding Riviera Maya region. It connects Cancún’s resort economy to domestic and international visitors.
INFRATUR : Mexico’s federal tourism agency established in 1969 to develop tourism infrastructure and destinations. Its planning and financing helped launch Cancún as a resort destination.
National Fund for Tourism Promotion : The English name of FONATUR, Mexico’s public agency for tourism development. The agency’s later role contrasts with the original planning body, INFRATUR.
Mass tourism : Tourism involving large numbers of visitors traveling through standardized, high-capacity services and destinations. Cancún became one of Mexico’s most prominent mass-tourism destinations.
Hotel Zone, Cancún : A resort district on a narrow barrier island in Cancún, lined with hotels, beaches, and entertainment venues. This planned strip concentrates the city’s best-known beachfront resorts.
FONATUR : Mexico’s National Fund for Tourism Promotion, a public agency involved in planning and developing tourism projects. It inherited responsibility for developing Cancún and other planned resorts.
Cancún development project : A Mexican government project begun in the 1970s to create a planned international resort destination in Quintana Roo. The project turned a lightly populated coastal area into a major tourism city.
Coral reef : A marine ecosystem built by coral animals and other organisms, usually in warm, shallow water. Reefs near Cancún support marine life but face pressures from development and tourism.
Riviera Maya : A Caribbean coastal tourism region in Quintana Roo, south of Cancún, including Playa del Carmen and Tulum. It extends the resort corridor southward along the same coastline.
Barrier island : A long, narrow coastal landform separated from the mainland by a lagoon or other body of water. Cancún’s Hotel Zone occupies a barrier island between the Caribbean and Nichupté Lagoon.
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